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... The Ladies' Repository - Página 3231841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 páginas
...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, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose Works, vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived a similar idea of what education... | |
| George William Rusden - 1853 - 382 páginas
...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, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 páginas
...imitate him, to he like him, as we may the nearest hy possessing our souls of true rirtue, which, heing united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But hecause our understanding cannot in this hody found itself, hut nn sensihle things, nor arrive... | |
| William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 páginas
...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, makes up the highest perfection." — MILTON. " True eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that... | |
| John Wilson - 1855 - 472 páginas
...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, makes up the highest perfection." Though an ordinary economical education cannot fail to be highly useful to the Jadejas, it is only... | |
| 1855 - 346 páginas
...imitate him, to be h'ke him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And it is evident that this is an end which must be kept constantly in view, and that the providing... | |
| Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 páginas
...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,...authorities Xenophon tells us with approbation that the Persian?, rather than make their children learned, taught them to be virtuous, and instead of filling... | |
| 1856 - 352 páginas
...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, 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 páginas
...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, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so... | |
| Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 páginas
...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, makes up the highest perfection." "Every faculty," says Archbishop Whately, "and every study, however worthless they may be, when not... | |
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