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... knowledge , and since it pleased you so well in the relating , I here give you them to dispose of . ' Milton begins by the principle that the end of learning is to repair the sins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright ...
... knowledge , and since it pleased you so well in the relating , I here give you them to dispose of . ' Milton begins by the principle that the end of learning is to repair the sins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright ...
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... knowledge ; learning takes no hold on them unless it is connected with doing , and it has occurred to many that , if to the whole cur- riculum of science there could be added a cur- riculum of practice , few pupils would be found ...
... knowledge ; learning takes no hold on them unless it is connected with doing , and it has occurred to many that , if to the whole cur- riculum of science there could be added a cur- riculum of practice , few pupils would be found ...
Page xix
... knowledge of virtue and the hatred of vice . For this purpose their young and pliant affections are to be led through the moral works of Plato , Xenophon , Cice- ro , and Plutarch , but in their nightward studies they are to submit to ...
... knowledge of virtue and the hatred of vice . For this purpose their young and pliant affections are to be led through the moral works of Plato , Xenophon , Cice- ro , and Plutarch , but in their nightward studies they are to submit to ...
Page xxi
... knowledge like the last embattelling of a Roman legion . ' One of the main hopes of the improvement of education lies in adopting the truth that manly and serious studies are capable of being handled and mastered by intelligent ...
... knowledge like the last embattelling of a Roman legion . ' One of the main hopes of the improvement of education lies in adopting the truth that manly and serious studies are capable of being handled and mastered by intelligent ...
Page xxii
... knowledge which he had acquired in these very tender years . The physical exercise proposed by Milton for his students is of an equally practical character , and differs widely from the laborious toiling at unproductive games , which is ...
... knowledge which he had acquired in these very tender years . The physical exercise proposed by Milton for his students is of an equally practical character , and differs widely from the laborious toiling at unproductive games , which is ...
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Page 3 - 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 xxiii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 7 - ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees...
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Page 29 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page xiii - ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page 4 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page xxiii - ... horseback, to all the art of cavalry, that having in sport, but with much exactness and daily muster, served out the rudiments of their soldiership in all the skill of...
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