| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...enlargements ; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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 is in a...abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom •and power, must ix-rish at her first setting out, and... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...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 is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...enlargements ; I could imagine she might fall away insensibly, and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a...perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad MHO the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...annihilation. But can we believe i thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the worki of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of hi« infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must... | |
| Beilby Porteus - Sermons - 1817 - 474 pages
...and then drop at once into a state of annihilation. But who can believe that a thinking being, which is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, must perish at her first setting out, and be stopped short in the very beginning of her inquiries?... | |
| Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...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 is in a perpetual progress of improvement, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into... | |
| J.-B.-C. Chaud - Theology, Doctrinal - 1817 - 528 pages
...arriving at it,... Can we believe a thinking being that is in a » perpetuai progress of improvement, and travelling on from » perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad » in to the Works of his Creator, and made a few discoveries » of his infinite goodness, wisdom and... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...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 is in a...abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...has that inflection which distinguishes the species of interrogation to which it belongs. EXAMPLE. Can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual...abroad into the works of its Creator', and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out', and... | |
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