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" Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified? How can we find that wisdom which shines through all his works, in the formation of man, without looking on this world as only a nursery... "
The Southern literary messenger - Page 386
1855
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1853 - 524 pages
...beings? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom which shines through all...creatures, which rise up and disappear in such quick successions, are only to receive their first rudiments of existence here, and afterwards to be transplanted...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface ...

Spectator The - 1853 - 1140 pages
...beings? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom which shines through all...creatures, which rise up and disappear in such quick successions, are only to receive their first rudiments of existence here, and afterwards to he transplanted...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 3-4

Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...beings? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified? How can we find that wisdom which sh'ines through...looking on this world as only a nursery for the next; ana believing that the several generations of rational creatures which rise up and disappear in such...
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The boy's second help to reading: a selection of choice passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...beings? Would He give us talents that are not to be exerted : capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom, which shines through...receive their first rudiments of existence here, and afterward to be transplanted into a more friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish to all...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...1 Would he give us talents that ore not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom, which shines through...in such quick succession, are only to receive their rudiments of existence here, and afterwards to be transplanted into a more friendly climate, where...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 pages
...beings ? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? Capacities that are never to be gratified? How can we find that wisdom, which shines through...in such quick succession, are only to receive their rudiments of existence here, and afterwards to be transplanted into a more friendly climate, where...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom, which shines through...in such quick succession, are only to receive their rudiments of existence here, and afterwards to be transplanted into a more friendly climate, where...
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The Typology of Scripture: Viewed in Connection with the Entire Scheme of ...

Patrick Fairbairn - 1854 - 952 pages
...mean a purpose ? Can he delight in such abortive intelligences, such short-lived reasonable beings ? How can we find that wisdom, which shines through...creatures, which rise up and disappear in such quick successions, are only to receive the rudiments of their existence here, and afterwards to be transplanted...
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Phaedo, Or, the Immortality of the Soul, Volume 1

Plato - 1854 - 354 pages
...his kind; to provide himself with a successor, and then to quit his post ; but that those short-lived generations of rational creatures, which rise up and...receive their first rudiments of existence here, and then be transplanted to some more friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish ; where they...
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - 1854 - 332 pages
...beings? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified? How can we find that Wisdom, which shines through...works in the formation of man, without looking on thia world as a nursery for the next ? and believing that the several generations of rational creatures,...
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