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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 388
1855
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Selections from the Spectator of Addison and Steele

A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 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...creatures, which rise up and disappear in such quick successions, are only to receive their first rudiments of existence here, and afterward to be transplanted...
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Hermathena, Volume 9

1896 - 464 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 all...on this world as only a nursery for the next ; and without believing that the several generations of rational creatures, which rise up and disappear in...
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the de coverley papers from the spectator

SAMUEL THRBER - 1898 - 236 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 Writer: A Concise, Complete, and Practical Textbook of Rhetoric ...

George Lansing Raymond, Post Wheeler - 1911 - 236 pages
...instance, is in the latter form. " Unless we look on this world as only a nursery for the next, and believe that the several generations of rational creatures,...which rise up and disappear in such quick succession, here receive only the first rudiments of their existence, afterwards to be transplanted into a more...
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A Family Record, and Other Matters Which, it is Hoped, Will be Good for the ...

Abraham Godshalk - 1912 - 314 pages
...beings? Would he give us talents that are not to be extended? Capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find that wisdom which shines through all...on this world as only a nursery for the next; and without believing that the several generations of rational creatures, which rise up and disappear in...
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The Spectator, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1915 - 710 pages
...through all his Works, in the Saturday, Formation of Man, without looking on this World, as only 171L ' a Nursery for the next, and believing that the several...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 Great Chain of Being

Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 pages
...subject, though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it.7 We must believe, Addison declares, that the several generations of rational 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 Quarterly Review, Volume 22

1820 - 590 pages
...? would he give us talents that are not to be exerted, capacities that are never to be gratified I 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 Quarterly review, Volume 22

1820 - 594 pages
...talents that are not to be exerted, capacities that are never to be gratified ? How can we find thai wisdom which shines through all His works, in the...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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New Age ReligiĆ³n and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular ...

Wouter J. Hanegraaff - 1996 - 606 pages
...proclaimed by the New Age movement (for example, by Seth) more than two centuries and a half later: ... the several generations of rational 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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