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... King Alfred : State of Learning in England 67. Asser : Alfred obtains Scholars from abroad 68. Asser : Education of the Son of King Alfred • 90 · 91 91 • 92 • 94 96 · 97 97 69. Ninth - Century Plan of the Monastery at Saint Gall CHAPTER ...
... King Alfred : State of Learning in England 67. Asser : Alfred obtains Scholars from abroad 68. Asser : Education of the Son of King Alfred • 90 · 91 91 • 92 • 94 96 · 97 97 69. Ninth - Century Plan of the Monastery at Saint Gall CHAPTER ...
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... kings , and is called the royal art . But , " added he , " have you ever considered whether it is possible for a man who is not just to be eminent in that art ? " " I have cer- tainly , " replied he ; " and it is not possible for a man ...
... kings , and is called the royal art . But , " added he , " have you ever considered whether it is possible for a man who is not just to be eminent in that art ? " " I have cer- tainly , " replied he ; " and it is not possible for a man ...
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... king himself conferred appointments to these positions ; in later times , the Roman emperors succeeded to the patronage , the government thereby binding in golden chains intellect that might otherwise have proved troublesome . . . . 18 ...
... king himself conferred appointments to these positions ; in later times , the Roman emperors succeeded to the patronage , the government thereby binding in golden chains intellect that might otherwise have proved troublesome . . . . 18 ...
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... king's palace , were noble provisions for the cultivation of exact science and for the pursuit of light literature . Under the same roof were gathered together geometers , astronomers , chemists , mechanicians , engineers . There were ...
... king's palace , were noble provisions for the cultivation of exact science and for the pursuit of light literature . Under the same roof were gathered together geometers , astronomers , chemists , mechanicians , engineers . There were ...
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... King of kings to whom even they owed hom- age and obedience ; and to call their own slaves their " poorer breth- ren , " and often , too , their " spiritual superiors . " But if the emperors had become Christian , the Empire had not ...
... King of kings to whom even they owed hom- age and obedience ; and to call their own slaves their " poorer breth- ren , " and often , too , their " spiritual superiors . " But if the emperors had become Christian , the Empire had not ...
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Page 331 - 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 to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 92 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 44 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler say?" other some, "He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods ; " because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 532 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...
Page 290 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 425 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 594 - Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers. "The way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors, to be observed alike by Their Descendants and Subjects, infallible for all ages and true in all places. It is Our wish to lay it to heart in all reverence, in common with you, Our subjects, that we may all thus attain to the same virtue.
Page 43 - ROMANS p)AUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of .God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead...
Page 263 - In the name of God amen. The 1 st day of September in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Henry VIII by the grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head, and in the year of our Lord God 1544.
Page 402 - ... of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty ; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.