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
| Thiselton Mark - 1899 - 164 sider
..."delight" in study, Milton's great aim is_tp produce men capable of serving God and the commonwealth ; " to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright " ; and to fit men for the discharge of "all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." If, then,... | |
| 1900 - 640 sider
...interesting pages of his book. For instance : — 1 This reminds us of Milton's words: "The end, then, of learning, is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright." * Lord Bacon. WOODWARD'S STAMMERING. " I had naturally linguam impcditam, a stammering tongue. My mother,... | |
| David Loewenstein - 1990 - 216 sider
...revelation of God's Word in future ages. We may recall that the prose work explicitly devoted to "repairing] the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright" begins with Milton addressing Hartlib thus: "I shall . . . strait conduct ye to a hill side, where... | |
| Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 sider
...Christian goal of education appears in Milton's famous treatise Of Education, where he wrote: The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him.45 Milton here defines education in terms of what it is designed to accomplish. There may be many... | |
| Julia Bolton Holloway - 1992 - 352 sider
...Education, 1664: "The end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining how to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection"; Jaeger notes that... | |
| John Beebe - 1992 - 200 sider
...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... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1993 - 372 sider
...educationally oriented, and in that orientation always moral and corrective. As he says in Of Education, "the end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents" (2). The History of Britain is a guide to lay bare the workings of providence, Milton's aim as well... | |
| Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 sider
...became the 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 sider
...first reflected a 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 sider
...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... | |
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