 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— Essays. John Milton, born 1608, died 1674. him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so... | |
 | John Hoppus - Education - 1847 - 300 pages
...special object, because it does not subject the will, as it "The end of learning," says our great poet, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." * " Virtue," says the prince of our philosophers, " direct virtue, is the hard and valuable part to... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...in the relating, I here give you them to dispose of. The end then of learning is to repair the ruina of our first parents by regaining to know God aright,...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...the divine ideal of humanity. And as the great and good Milton has said, " The end of all learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection :" so we may add, the man of letters and art might be expected to be the most pure-minded and faithful... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...the divine ideal of humanity. And as the great and good Milton has said, " The end of all learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection:" so we may add, the man of letters and art might be expected to be the most pure-minded and faithful... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...the divine ideal of humanity. And as the great and good Milton has said, " The end of all learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection :" so we may add, the man of letters and art might be expected to be the most pure-minded and faithful... | |
 | Bible - 1849 - 848 pages
...TO KNOW GOD ARIGHT, AND OUT OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TO LOVE HIM, TO IMITATE HIM, TO BE LIKE HIM, AS WE MAT THE NEAREST BY POSSESSING OUR SOULS OF TRUE VIRTUE,...GRACE OF FAITH, MAKES UP THE HIGHEST PERFECTION." ARTICLE VII. ENGLISH PURITANISM IN THE TIMES OF THE COMMONWEALTH. An Abstract of " Anglia Rediviva,... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...the divine ideal of humanity. And as the great and good Milton has said, " The end of all learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection :" so we may add, the man of letters and art might be- expected to be the most pure-minded and faithful... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - Education - 1851 - 128 pages
...world, but as the highest aim of the human being ; as Milton has nobly said, " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." In this way we should raise up a powerful counter influence against the excessive commercial spirit,... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - History - 1851 - 120 pages
...the world, but as the highest aim of the human being; as Milton has nobly said, " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." In this way we should raise up a powerful counter influence against the excessive commercial spirit,... | |
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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... 
