 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...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 blown, and... | |
 | Nullity - Metaphysics - 1863 - 112 pages
...not. As to the latter, be he of whatever grade, he, the brute, "has, in a few years," as Addison says, "all the endowments he is capable of, and were he...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present." And the essayist (' Spectator,' the hundred and eleventh number) then goes on to show the improbability... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...into the thoughts of man, that the soul which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...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 blown, and... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 476 pages
...capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are...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 were he to... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 482 pages
...capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are...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 were he to... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...hyper-, had, I think, already made the comparison. capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...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 were he to... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1866 - 468 pages
...capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are...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 were he to... | |
 | William Fleming - Ethics - 1867 - 450 pages
...is in a Continual Progress towards Perfection. " A brute," says Mr. Addison (Spectator, No. iii.) " arrives at a point of perfection that he can never...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,... | |
 | Alfred Bryant - Future life - 1867 - 312 pages
...into the thought of man, that the soul which is capable of such immense perfection, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection which he... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving now improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into...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 blown and incapable... | |
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How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense 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?... 
