 | Louis Direy - 1858 - 186 Seiten
...not use in a sentence a noble and a mean gender alternately, while speaking of the same object: Was a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments,...were her faculties to be full blown and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 Seiten
...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...thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1864 - 476 Seiten
...thus at a stand in her accomplishment, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly,...that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and traveling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of the Creator,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1864 - 482 Seiten
...thus at a stand in her accomplishment, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly,...that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and traveling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of the Creator,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...thus at a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could' imagine it might fall away...into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a thinkingbeing, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 Seiten
...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...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once in a state of... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1866 - 468 Seiten
...thus at a stand in her accomplishment, were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly,...that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and traveling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of the Creator,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - 450 Seiten
...a stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties fullblown and incapable of further enlargement, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and...thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
 | Alfred Bryant - 1867 - 312 Seiten
...the endow 4 ments 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...were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargement, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 Seiten
...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...were her faculties to be full blown and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state... | |
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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. Were a human soul thus at... 
