 | Samuel Eells - Classical education - 1836 - 276 pages
...record 15 of his opinion, in his letter to Samuel Hartlib: "The endoflearning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the Heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...subject of his poem. Even in the " Tractate on Education," addressed to Hartlib, in 1650, he says, " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright." These works, which would have done honour to a Ducange, or to a Benedictine of the congregation of... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...learning is sublime. He considered it to consist in repairing the ruin of our first parents by requiring to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, and to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Education - 1838 - 300 pages
...Solomon, or the evangelists and apostolic Scriptures." And in another place he declares explicitly : "THE END OF LEARNING 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."* * One of... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Education - 1838 - 300 pages
...declares explicitly : "THE END OF LEARNING IS TO REPAIR THE RUINS OF OUR TIRST PARENTS, BY REQUIRING TO KNOW GOD ARIGHT, AND OUT OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TO LOVE HIM AND TO IMITATE HIM."* * One of our own most eminent citizens, the Hon. Samuel L. Southard, in an Address... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 598 pages
...queene Elizabeth herselfe, departed within a few days out of this world. MILTON ON CLASSICAL EDUCATION.* The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and of that knowledge to love him, to imitate, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 pages
...departed within af w days out of this world. HILTON ON CLASSICAL EDUCATION.* The end of learning js to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and of that knowledge to love him, to imitate, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 pages
...attention to the heart." " The end of learning," according to the immortal Milton, " is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...attention to the heart." The end of learning," according to the immortal Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1851 - 568 pages
...Christian education to be the realization of the object so happily enunciated by Milton, when he gaid— " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our...of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to he like Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to... | |
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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 neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united... 
