 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...  John Milton: A Biography - Pagina 111door Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 251 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 476 pagina’s
...Erskine says but little, is undoubtedly that of Milton as defined to Master Hartlib, "the end" of which " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Though an ordinary economical education cannot fail to be highly useful to the Jadejas, it is only... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...thine own. This, and only this, is rightly called learning.—Dr T. Fuller. 20. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.—John Milton. 21. you unto the Creator, for so shall your actions b done more frequently... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...thine own. This, and only this, is rightly called learning.—Dr T. Fuller. 20. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.—John Milton. 21. Let every thing you see represent to your spirit the presence, the excellency,... | |
 | 1855 - 346 pagina’s
...prefaces his proposal with this description of its ultimate object: — " The end," he says, "of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be h'ke him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the... | |
 | 1856 - 352 pagina’s
...thistles and brambles." " The end of learning," he says in the same treatise, " is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...understanding cannot in this body found itself but upon sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pagina’s
...with the accents of inspiration. These are his words : " The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly graces... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 pagina’s
...the immortal Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God arightr and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may be the nearest by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pagina’s
...iLearntng. — 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. . — Bishop Earie. J^ PRETENDER to Learning is one that would make all others more fools than himself,... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 pagina’s
...Christian will, without doubt, transcendently surpass all others. Milton has said, " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our .first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." "Every faculty," says Archbishop Whately, "and every study, however worthless they may be, when not... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1857 - 1134 pagina’s
...this surely that Milton had in view, when he said that the end of education was " to repair the rums of our first parents by regaining to know God aright,...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." Effect of It has been a source of continual happiness to me, in my ™ thdrh°° district, to find... | |
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