 | John Wilson - 1855 - 476 lapas
...Erskine says but little, is undoubtedly that of Milton as defined to Master Hartlib, "the end" of which " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Though an ordinary economical education cannot fail to be highly useful to the Jadejas,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 lapas
...thine own. This, and only this, is rightly called learning.—Dr T. Fuller. 20. 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.—John Milton. 21. you unto the Creator, for so shall your actions b done more frequently... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 lapas
...thine own. This, and only this, is rightly called learning.—Dr T. Fuller. 20. 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.—John Milton. 21. Let every thing you see represent to your spirit the presence, the excellency,... | |
 | 1855 - 346 lapas
...prefaces his proposal with this description of its ultimate object: — " The end," he says, "of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be h'ke him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the... | |
 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 lapas
...Milton's conception of the education of integrity. Indeed, he sees the main purpose of all education to be "to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." 36 Knowledge, including the prodigious knowledge he himself possessed, was to give strength to the... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 lapas
...serious poet who valued books to the extraordinary degree that he believed that "the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."1 And, for Milton, to know God aright, to be learned and pious, is not only holiness, it is... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - 1996 - 742 lapas
...Baconian optimism in the potential of method to reverse the effects of the fall: "The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." We attain knowledge of God by studying in ascending order the works of nature and humanity. The second... | |
 | Joseph E. Duncan - 1972 - 349 lapas
...harmonious relationship to each other because he sees them in relation to the true end of knowledge: "to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him." With this end, the root of all true knowledge, Adam is able to distinguish the greater good from the... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 lapas
...learning," he declared, "is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright ... as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true...to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."'2 Only at the very last moment is the humanist confidence in the redemptive capacity of... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - 2002 - 1064 lapas
...Monday morning.105 John Milton, like others before him, had no doubts that 'the end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him'.106 It must be remembered, too, that these schools existed in a recently Protestantised nation,... | |
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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... 
