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; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. The Spectator - Сторінка 140редактори - 1898Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Jean Jacques Burlamaqui - 1752 - 368 стор.
...fuch abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a foint of perfection that he can never pafs : In a few years he has all the endowments he is capable...and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at aftand in her acccomplifhments, were her faculties... | |
| 1773 - 394 стор.
...fuch abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfeftion that he can never pafs : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefenr. Were a human foul thus at a fland in her accomplifhments,... | |
| John Wesley - 1785 - 718 стор.
...fuch abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a poinfof perfeftion that he can never pafs; in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to Jive ten' thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at a ftand... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 стор.
...words than his own. " A brute, fays he, arrives at a point of perfection, which he can never pafs. In a few years, he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thoufand more, he would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 стор.
...abilities abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfeftion that he can never pafs ; in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplifhments,... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 стор.
...liti lities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pafs: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thouland more, would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplifiiments... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 стор.
...fuch abilities made for no purpofe ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pafs : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prcfcnt. Were a human foul thus at a Itand in her accompliihments,... | |
| 1792 - 494 стор.
...fuch abilities made for no purpotc ? A brute arrives at a point of perfcftion that he can never pafs : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, would be the fame thing he is at prefcnt. Were a human foul thus at a Hand in her accompirihments,... | |
| 1797 - 680 стор.
...abilities made for ro purpole ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pafs : in a fe\v years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more, world be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at a Hand in her accomplilhments,... | |
| David Hume - 1799 - 142 стор.
...fuch abilities made for no purpofe? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pafs : In a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thoufand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent. Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her... | |
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