 | Alexander Reid - 1854 - 154 páginas
...Filial tenderness triumphed over every other consideration. " Where," cried the generous youths, a shall we find a more precious treasure than they are,...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargement ; I which inhabit foreign regions, went to a neighbouring city to see an exhibition... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...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 that he can...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... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1854 - 260 páginas
...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... | |
 | Plato - 1854 - 352 páginas
...justice 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 endowments...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... | |
 | George Crabb - 1854 - 542 páginas
...crowns, with action those. POPE When we speak of an endowment, we refer in our minds to the receiver; 'A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass; in a few yeais lie hns all the rndowmmta he is capable of.* — ADD-ON. When we ppeHk of a talent (v. Intellect)... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 páginas
...by others who have written on this subject, though it 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 1 The expressions " Laissez nous original sketches, there yet remains to faire," and "pas trap gouverner,"... | |
 | George Crabb - 1854 - 546 páginas
...with action those. i'oj-E When we speak of an fndotci»cntt we refer in our minds it> the ncci\er; 'A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pa«*; in a few years hi* has all \hi* enduirmcnts hn U capable of.1 — ADDISON. Wbrn we >peak of... | |
 | 1855 - 804 páginas
...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 that he can...to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing as he is at present. But a man can never take in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 páginas
...followed by some supplemental remark or farther illustration of the subject, the colon is used ; as, " A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, he would he the same thing that he is at present." 2. When a semicolon, or more than one, has preceded,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 páginas
...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 that he can...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... | |
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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. 
