 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 էջ
...the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 էջ
...; were her f iculties to be lull blown, and incapable of farther enlargements ; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into...annihilation But can we believe a thinking being, that is-in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 էջ
...the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in...incapable of farther enlargements ; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 էջ
...the endowments he is capabl* of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 448 էջ
...the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in...her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full grown, and incapable of farther enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 էջ
...at a stand in her ar.complishments : were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements ; I could imagine it might fall away...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom •and... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 էջ
...the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in...were her faculties to be full blown and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 էջ
...capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. • W«re a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 էջ
...capable of ; and wer« he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were > human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,...once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe i thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 էջ
...; were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements ; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad MHO the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and... | |
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A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at... 
