 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...as pleased yon so well in the relating, I here give you them to dispose of. The end then of learning is, to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things,... | |
 | Education - 1836 - 432 pages
...as pleased you so well in the relating, I here give you them to dispose of. The end then of learning is, to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things,... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...pleased you so well Jn_lhe relating, I here give you them to dispose of. 4. The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers - Education - 1837 - 286 pages
...to make the worse, or more dangerous man." Milton says: "The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, make up the highest perfection." And St'. Pierre, in his "Studies of Nature," often enjoins that morality... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1838 - 292 pages
...had, learning may be had into the bargain." Milton says, " The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, make up the highest perfection." Lord Kames says, " It appears unaccountable that our teachers generally... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1838 - 296 pages
...learning may be had into the bargain." Milton says, '• The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright,...which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, make up the highest perfection." Lord Kames says, " It appears unaccountable that our teachers generally... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
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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... 
