 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 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 Works, vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived a similar idea of... | |
 | 1855 - 534 lapas
...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 lapas
...; 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 lapas
...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,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 lapas
...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 lapas
...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... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 lapas
...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...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." — MILTON. " True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth... | |
 | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1854 - 764 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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... 
