 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 Seiten
...accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and incapable of further enlargement, I would imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at...thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - 1806 - 402 Seiten
...is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. 5. Were 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... | |
 | 1826 - 488 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...her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full grown, and incapable of farther enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop... | |
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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... 
