 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 Seiten
...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 - 374 Seiten
...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...away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Aro such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 Seiten
...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...pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he ii capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were... | |
 | 1856 - 902 Seiten
...MIND TOWARDS PERFECTION. How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 430 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 Seiten
...never pass. In a few years he has all the endowments of which he is capable ; and were he to live for ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. But a man can never take in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 Seiten
...man," says this elegant writer, " that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall...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... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1857 - 264 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of y, cieated ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at the point of perfection that... | |
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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... 
