...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...

...appellation, " The end of learning," he says, "is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love...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...

...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,...united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the best perfection. " And thus, though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel...

...Education? we come to again. " 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, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may be nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith,...

...ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love hi in, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest,...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...

...END. — The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue. — Milton. LEARNING, ITS ORDER. — The true order of learning should be, first, what is necessary...

...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...

...THE AUTHOR. BOOK IV. " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love...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...

...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...

...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, to be like him as we !.; .y the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, v. :.ich being united to the heavenly grace...