 | Thomas Lynch - 1872 - 244 sivua
...further illustration of the subject, the colon is used: as, "A brute arrives at a point of development that he can never pass : in a few years he has all...capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, he would be the same thing that he is at present." 2. The colon is also used when one or more semicolons... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 200 sivua
...the thoughts of a man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 sivua
...into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? * * * Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious beings for so mean and brief a purpose ?... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 sivua
...into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? * * • * Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious beings for so mean and brief a purpose... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 sivua
...soul, which is capable of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass; and in a few years he has all the endowments of which he is capable. Were a human soul thus at a stand... | |
 | Albert M. Bacon - 1872 - 294 sivua
...soul, which is ho '" hf capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improveao t ments to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as aldo created. dl XXXVII. Our thoughts are boundless though our frames are frail, bhhlbhdo Our souls... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 sivua
...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 be the same thing that he is at present." 2. When a semicolon, or more than one, has preceded,... | |
 | David Philip Lindsley - 1873 - 254 sivua
...into the tho'ts of man that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfect ions, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away...as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made to no purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pas; in a few years he has... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1874 - 166 sivua
...to invent pretences beforehand, or to make excuses afterwards, for any thing he has said or done. 2. A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. 3. Oh, it is excellent 4. Will fortune never come with both hands full Eut write her fair words still... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 sivua
...sense, and might be closed with a period, but something is added for the purpose of illustration ; as, " A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can...years he has all the endowments he is capable of." 2. The clauses separated by a Colon are without connectives, as they are not related in construction.... | |
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How can it 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 Fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose?... 
