 | Horae - 1851 - 414 pages
...get or keep employments. — SWIFT. Learning. JHE end of learning is to repair the ruins of our firft parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neareft, by pofleffing our fouls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of Faith,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...here give you them to dilpofe of. ^_ j The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of-elir firft Parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neereft by poffefling our fouls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes... | |
 | 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 pages
...there were four monstrale " que 1'homme n'est vraiment que le produit de son education." (Emrcs, fyc. vii. 5. Milton was scarcely less sanguine in his opinions...faith, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose Works, vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived a similar idea of what education should be,... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...self-restraint. What, then, is Education? we come to again. " The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright,...love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may be nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...; in it. the author reminds his correspondent, that learning is not, and cannot be, its own end. It is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright ; and, out of the knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, to be like Him as we may ; the nearest, by possessing... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1853 - 382 pages
...Atlantic, I shall, however, quote his graphic description of the uses of education. " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love hi in, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...Education,— " The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, hy regaining to know Ood aright, and out of that knowledge to love him* to imitate him, to he like him, as we may the nearest hy possessing our souls of true rirtue, which, heing united to the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...END. — 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. LEARNING, ITS ORDER. — The true order of learning should be, first, what is necessary... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 pages
...winter's night, These shall revive, and bless returning light ! THE AUTHOR. BOOK IV. " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." — MILTON. " True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that... | |
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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... 
