 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 páginas
...itself a very peculiar idea of that system of training which merits such an appellation, " The end of learning," he says, "is to repair the ruins of...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose Works, vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived a similar idea of what education... | |
 | 1855 - 534 páginas
...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 páginas
...; 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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 páginas
...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... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 páginas
...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... | |
 | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1854 - 764 páginas
...excluded from our schools, it being " the end of learning to repair the ruins of the fall, by teaching to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him and obey him;" that, therefore, the General Assembly reaffirms its approval, so often expressed in... | |
 | 1854 - 652 páginas
...end of learning," says the great Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by requiring to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him." But what a mass of false perceptions, false judgments, and false principles, in... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 142 páginas
...repair the ruins of our first ! • vents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that i imwledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we !.; .y the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, v. :.ich being united to the heavenly grace... | |
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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... 
