 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 neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united...  Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 213af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 sider
...; 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 sider
...Puritans across the Atlantic, I shall, however, quote his graphic description of the uses of education. " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our...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 sider
...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... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 142 sider
...verdure, lost in 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 ! • vents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that i imwledge to love him, to imitate him,... | |
 | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1854 - 764 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 346 sider
...conceived, 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,...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... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 sider
...the immortal Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God arightr and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may be the nearest by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 sider
...with the accents of inspiration. These are his words : " The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly graces... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1857 - 1134 sider
...this surely that Milton had in view, when he said that the end of education was " to repair the rums of our first parents by regaining to know God aright,...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." Effect of It has been a source of continual happiness to me, in my ™ thdrh°° district, to find... | |
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