 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 pages
...new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Aro such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives...has all the endowments he is capable of, and were ho to live ten thousand more, would be tho same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...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 arrives...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...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 arrives...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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 430 pages
...receiving 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...pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he it capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were... | |
 | 1856 - 600 pages
...possibility of ever arriving at it ; which is a hint that seems to me to carry a great weight with it. A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments that he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.... | |
 | 1856 - 902 pages
...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 arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments of which he is capable, and, were... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1857 - 264 pages
...by some additional remark or illustration' 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 hahit of thinking : nothing is more important."... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...for no purpose ? A brute arrives at the point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few yean 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 a stand in her accomplishments ; were her faculties... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...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 arrives at a point of perfection which he can never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and wete he to... | |
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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. 
