| 1848 - 310 pages
...perfections, and of receiving 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 arives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away 30 into no«'iing almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose...ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at 35 present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments, — were her faculties to be... | |
| Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 pages
...something is added for the purpose of illustration ; as, " A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass : in a few years he has all the...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present." — Spectator, False Punctuation. The three great enemies to tranquillity are vice superstition and... | |
| Peter Bullions - 1849 - 250 pages
...by gome additional remark or illustrationi depending upon it in sense, though not in Syntax ; as, " A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments of •which he is capable/' — •' Study to acquire a habit of thinking : nothing is more important."... | |
| Peter Bullions - 1849 - 252 pages
...additional remark or illustration* depending; upon it in sense, though not in Syntax ; as, " A hrute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments of which he is capahle." — •- Study to acquire a hahit of thinking : nothing is more irn(xirtant."... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...perfections, and of receiving 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 arives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...perfections, and of receiving 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 arives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he... | |
| John White - 1850 - 188 pages
...: it will redound to your honour. EXERCISES. Supply the points omitted in the following sentences. A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...thousand more would be the same thing he is at present. Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance yonder palace was raised by single stones... | |
| Peter Bullions - 1850 - 238 pages
...additional remark or illustration, depending upon it in sense, though not in syntax ; as, " A hrute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never...pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capahle of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would he the same thing; he is at present." "Study... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 368 pages
...receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost us soon as it is created I Are such abilities made for no purpose '. A brute...at a point of perfection that he can never pass in n few years ; he has nil the endowments he is ca|iable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would... | |
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