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... on the common system of education Its evil consequences Delights of knowledge ... College of Cairo ... 141 -- ... 143 144 145 146 ... 147 148 ... 149 Tractate on Education . End and aim of true learning CONTENTS . 13.
... on the common system of education Its evil consequences Delights of knowledge ... College of Cairo ... 141 -- ... 143 144 145 146 ... 147 148 ... 149 Tractate on Education . End and aim of true learning CONTENTS . 13.
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... common- wealths . They teach not that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , -magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our be- ginning , regeneration ...
... common- wealths . They teach not that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , -magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our be- ginning , regeneration ...
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... common law , to slight and brave the in- diminishable majesty of our highest court , the law - giving and sacred parliament ? Do they not plainly labour to exempt churchmen from the ma- gistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question ...
... common law , to slight and brave the in- diminishable majesty of our highest court , the law - giving and sacred parliament ? Do they not plainly labour to exempt churchmen from the ma- gistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question ...
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... ages . Feeling within themselves no dis- position to make great exertions , or great sacrifices , for the common good , it is beyond their power to conceive how sweet to him who has been nurtured in xxxvi PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
... ages . Feeling within themselves no dis- position to make great exertions , or great sacrifices , for the common good , it is beyond their power to conceive how sweet to him who has been nurtured in xxxvi PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
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... Common- wealth with prudent reserve , and , while clamouring for the democracy , have deluded the royal party with secret professions of attachment . Kings in distress promise , at least , if they do not pay ; and such abilities as his ...
... Common- wealth with prudent reserve , and , while clamouring for the democracy , have deluded the royal party with secret professions of attachment . Kings in distress promise , at least , if they do not pay ; and such abilities as his ...
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Página 181 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Página 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 234 - Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 241 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 144 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 237 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself. What does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Página 180 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 201 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Página lxxxiii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página lxxxiii - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...