 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...  American Annals of Education - Seite 360herausgegeben von - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 352 Seiten
...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...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but upon sensible things, nor arrive... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 Seiten
...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 of'faith make up the highest perfection." Locke, the great John Locke, has spoken words of wisdom... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 Seiten
...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, makes up the highest perfection." Many other illustrious authorities of modern times might be cited, but I pass to cite one or two ancient... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...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...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." "Every faculty," says Archbishop Whately, "and every study, however worthless they may be, when not... | |
 | 1856 - 368 Seiten
...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...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.' He descends by only two steps from this grand generality to Greek and Latin, the first step being '... | |
 | 1858 - 424 Seiten
...parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, as we may the pearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly graces of faith, make up the highest perfection." " Virtue," says John Locke, "is the hard and valuable... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1860 - 704 Seiten
...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...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And it is also among our benefits, that, though our system of education is less definitely wrought out... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - 1860 - 548 Seiten
...learning to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to be like him, — as we may the nearest be by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And how well he insists on this definite and living purpose of the scholar, when he speaks of " that methodical... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1860 - 766 Seiten
...to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him ; as we may, the nearest, by possessing our souls of the true virtue; which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection ? " Need it still be added, that, of such a work, the power and the glory must be God's. It begins... | |
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