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... Select Prose Works - Página 144de John Milton - 1836 - 2 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1859 - 890 páginas
...after-woman depends. It is this surely that Milton had in view, when he said that the end.of education was ' to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to bejike Him.' " So far, the Church of England Inspectors are of one mind ; and these, we admit, are... | |
| George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 380 páginas
...We must give to the term learning a broad definition, if we accept Milton's statement that its end " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright ; " for this necessarily implies that we are to study carefully everything relating to the nature of... | |
| George Washington Doane - 1860 - 744 páginas
...; the Godhead. Can it be stated more sublimely, or more justly, than in Milton's words : " the end of learning, is to repair the ruins of our first parents,...as we may, the nearest, by possessing our souls of the true virtue ; which, being united to the heavenly grace pf faith, makes up the highest perfection... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1860 - 766 páginas
...sprung; the Godhead. Can it be stated more sublimely, or more justly, than in Milton's words: " the end of learning, is to repair the ruins of our first parents,...as we may, the nearest, by possessing our souls of the true virtue; which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection... | |
| George Washington Doane - 1860 - 746 páginas
...; the Godhead. Can it be stated more sublimely, or more justly, than in Milton's words : " the end of learning, is to repair the ruins of our first parents,...as we may, the nearest, by possessing our souls of the true virtue ; which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection... | |
| S. Phillips - 1860 - 406 páginas
...profession." "The end of learning," says Milton, "is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by requiring to know God aright, and out of that knowledge, to love Him, and to imitate Him." "We see, therefore, that religious training is the only true palladium of your... | |
| Frederic Dan Huntington - 1860 - 544 páginas
...memory or imitation, no purpose should sooner move us than simply the love of God and of mankind The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by learning to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to be like him, — as wo may the nearest be... | |
| Alfred Newsom Niblett - 1861 - 204 páginas
...sour."—Homer. " The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue."—Milton. " To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."— Bishop Taylor. FRIENDSHIP.... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 páginas
...the subject under discussion from the highest possible point of view. "The end of learning," he says, "is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up... | |
| 1862 - 452 páginas
...the best and noblest way of education," — of which the end is declared to be " to repair the ruines of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith... | |
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