 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1817 - 594 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...thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
 | Rufus W. Adams - 1818 - 322 էջ
...; I could imagines she might fall away insensibly, a,ul drop at once into a state of annihilation.4 But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its creator, and made a few discoveriesS of his infinite goodness, wisdom,... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 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...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 էջ
...has that inflection which distinguishes the species of interrogation to which it belongs. EXAMPLE. Can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator', and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom,... | |
 | 1820 - 438 էջ
...thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly,...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 էջ
...all the endowments he is capable of; were he to live ten thousand more, he 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... | |
 | 1820 - 424 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 էջ
...the en-' dowmentshe is capable of; were he to live ten thousand more, he 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 a-.vay insensibly, and drop at once into a etate... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 էջ
...pt a stand in her accomplishments ; •were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements; I could imagine it might fall away insensibly,...into a state of annihilation^ But, can we believe 3 thinking being, that is in a. perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 էջ
...accomplishments; were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements ; 1 could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into...thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
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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... 
