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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. "
Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ... - Page 254
by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 342 pages
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The English Reader

Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...though it seems to me to carry a very great weight with it. 6. Were a human soul thus at a stand m her accomplishments ; were her faculties to be full blown, and incapable of farther enlargements; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state...
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - 1829 - 308 pages
...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 live ten thousand more, would be...further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a thinking being,...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...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...stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I would imagine it might fall away insensibly, and...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...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...stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I would imagine it might fall away insensibly, and...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...the endowments he is capable of; were he to live ten thousand more, he would be the same -thing he ts at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her...further enlargements ; I could imagine it might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But, can we believe a thinking being,...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would fee the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul...stand in her accomplishments, were her faculties to be full-blown, and incapable of farther enlargement, I would imagine it might fall away insensibly, and...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pages
...perfection, that he can never pass; in a few years he has all the endowments he 13 capable of ; and \v ere he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at pi esent. , 5. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments; were her faculties to be full...
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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...point of perfection, that he car) 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 thiug he is at present 5. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments ; were her faculties...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verses; Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...perfection', that he can never pass* : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capatte ofv ; and were he to live ten thousand more', would be the same thing he is at present*. . 6 Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments' ; were her faculties to be full blown',...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...point of perfection, that he can never pass: in a few years he has all t.'ie endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same tiling he is at present. 6. Were a human soul thus at a stand in her accomplishments ; were her faculties...
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