John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians: His Life and Educational Works

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C. W. Bardeen, 1881 - 264 sider

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Side 213 - Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Side 192 - The foundation of all learning consists in representing clearly to the senses sensible objects, so that they can be apprehended easily. I maintain that this is the basis of all other actions, inasmuch as we could neither act nor speak wisely unless we comprehended clearly what we wished to say or do. For it is certain that there is nothing in the Understanding which has not been previously in the Senses; and consequently, to exercise the senses carefully in discriminating the differences of natural...
Side 39 - He was a foreigner by birth, being the son of a Polish merchant of German extraction, who had left Poland when that country fell under Jesuit rule, and had settled in Elbing in Prussia in very good circumstances. Twice married before to Polish ladies, this merchant had married in Prussia, for his third wife, the daughter of a...
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Side 40 - ... Councillor, and again a Sir Edward Savage. The other aunt had married a country gentleman, named Peak. A cousin of Hartlib's, the daughter of the first and wealthier aunt, Lady Smith, became the wife of Sir Anthony Irby, MP for Boston in the Long Parliament. But it did not require -such family connexions to make Hartlib at home in English society. The character of the man would have made him at home anywhere. He was one of those persons, now styled "philanthropists
Side 37 - Do we not dwell in the garden of Nature as well as the ancients? " he exclaims. " Why should we not use our eyes, ears, and noses as well as they? And why should we need other teachers than these our senses to learn to know the works of Nature?
Side 76 - Knowledge, Virtue, and Piety. All else is merely accidental and extrinsic. V. The seeds of these three (Knowledge, Virtue, and Religion) are in us by Nature, ie our first original and fundamental nature, to which we are to be recalled by God in Christ. It is as certain that Man has been born fit for the understanding of things, the harmony of morals, and the love of God, as that there are roots to a tree.
Side 65 - War, he yet never despaired, but with enduring truth, and strong in faith, he labored unweariedly to prepare youth by a better education for a better future. Suspended from the ministry...

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