 Are such abilities made for no purpose ? 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.  The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator - Pagina 299door Joseph Addison - 1854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ! Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose'? A brute arrives...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a stale... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives...capable of; and 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 her accomplishments... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 486 pagina’s
...it in any other words than his own. " A brute," says he, " arrives at a point of perfection, which he can never pass. In a few years, he has all the...capable of, and 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 her accomplishments... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives...and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the sanw thing he is at present. 1 5. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,. were her... | |
 | 1824 - 278 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives...he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand iriore, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 pagina’s
...eternity, shall fall away iato nothing, almost ns soon as it is cteated ? Are suc'i ahilities made lor no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection, that he can never pass : :sa, lew years he lias all the endowments he is capnble of; and were he t» live ten thousand uiore,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | Thomas William Lancaster - 1825 - 494 pagina’s
...of the human and the brutal soul. For, to revert to the words of the same incomparable writer u, " a brute arrives at a " point of perfection that he...more, would " be the same thing he is at present." Nor is there any thing here which implies the necessity of a previous existence, but rather a presumption... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pagina’s
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created 1 Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives...the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ton thousand more, would ba the same thing he is at present 0. Man, considered only in his present... | |
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