| Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 lapas
...idea of that system of training which merits such an appellation, " The end of learning," he says, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose Worka, vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived a similar idea of... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 lapas
...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...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things,... | |
| Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 lapas
...idea of that system of training which merits such an appellation, " The end of learning" he says, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace faith, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose War vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 lapas
...first parents by I regaining to knowTTod aright, and out of thaFTchowIedge to love him, to imuat'e him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls " 61 true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.... | |
| Mary Milner - 1846 - 808 lapas
...class for whom, especially, each scheme of education is designed ; or, to use the words of Milton," 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,... | |
| 1846 - 780 lapas
...had spent " many studious and contemplative years in the search of RELIGIOUS and CIVIL knowledge") "is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him." Would he who wrote thus would this zealous defender of civil and religious liberty have consented... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 lapas
...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...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 Hoppus - 1847 - 300 lapas
...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...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." * " Virtue," says the prince of our philosophers, " direct virtue, is the hard and valuable... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 540 lapas
...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,...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things,... | |
| 1849 - 778 lapas
...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...the 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... | |
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