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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... "
The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 366
1854
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...them to difpofe of. The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our firft 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 neareft by poffefling our fouls of true virtue, which...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 1

Henry Kett - 1815 - 598 pages
...but as furnifhing a * " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our firft 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 ncareft, by poflcflmg our fouls of true virtue, which...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 6

1824 - 604 pages
...question: — " 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,...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 17

Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 pages
...to dispose of. n. The end then 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 the neerest, by possessing our souls of true vertue, which,...
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The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of Grammar

David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...Human Nature. MILTON. 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 the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which...
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The Evangelical Instructor: Designed for the Use of Schools and Families

1821 - 270 pages
...in Massaehusetts. 1 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 the nearest by possessing our *' souls of true virtue,...
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Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their ...

Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...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 to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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 to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which,...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...to them to mend their wits, not their manners—Seneca. DCCCV. 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. DCCCVI. Of all Injustice,...
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