fix a limit

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Give a chimpanzee articulate expression and language, and no one could fix a limit to his progress.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple

But we fix a limit when we close our souls to further experiences by the practical denial that they exist.

From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.

It might be advisable to fix a limit beyond which no citizen of the United States residing abroad may claim the interposition of his government.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Lincoln, Abraham

Here there is no ancient system of social exclusiveness to fix a limit to the intellectual progress of the proletariat.

From The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People by Bourinot, John George, Sir

Neither can we set a limit to it, for wherever we fix a limit, space is springing up beyond.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin