 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...youthful reader, he begins thus : The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...here give you them to dispose of. 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...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1855 - 1214 pages
...purpose of education — Milton says, "tho end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to lore Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may tho nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue... | |
 | 1854 - 766 pages
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...sublime. He considers the end of learning to consist " in the repairing the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1834 - 270 pages
...end of learning is to repair the rain of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and r- 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 to the Heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1834 - 350 pages
...The end of learning is to repair th ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, an out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be Ilk him, as wo may the nearest, by possessing our souls of tru virtue, which being united to the Heavenly... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 458 pages
...expedient. Milton's words are these—"The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright; and out of that knowledge...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...here give you them to dispose of. The end then of learning is to repair the ruius of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1835 - 760 pages
...premises that, "The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by inquiring 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 to the heavenly grace of faith,... | |
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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... 
