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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... "
The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface ... - Page 303
by Spectator The - 1853
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The Spectator, Volume 2

1729 - 342 pages
...be full blown, and incapable of further Enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly, and drop at once into a State of Annihilation. But...we believe a thinking Being that is in a perpetual Progrefs of Improvements, and travelling on from Perfection to Perfection, after having juft looked...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...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...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom and...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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...farther 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, that...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 472 pages
...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...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom,...
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The Columbian Miscellany: Containing a Variety of Important, Instructive ...

Abner Kneeland - 1804 - 416 pages
...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...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom arid...
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The Columbian Miscellany: Containing a Variety of Important, Instructive ...

Abner Kneeland - 1804 - 462 pages
...the endowments he is capable of; and were .he to live ten thousand more, \vould be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at a stand in...drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can ue believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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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1804 - 676 pages
...the endowments he is capable of ; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thiug 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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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...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...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom and...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...at a stand in her accomplishments, were her fa-' culties to be full blown, and incapable of further enlargements, I could imagine it might fall away insensibly,...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom and...
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