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... moral teaching for the formation of a lofty character . The Pinax of Cebes , which as a school- book is coming now again into favour , and which advocates moral principles in simple language ; the moral works of Plutarch , one of the ...
... moral teaching for the formation of a lofty character . The Pinax of Cebes , which as a school- book is coming now again into favour , and which advocates moral principles in simple language ; the moral works of Plutarch , one of the ...
Page xix
... moral works of Plato , Xenophon , Cice- ro , and Plutarch , but in their nightward studies they are to submit to the more determinate sen- tence of Holy Writ . ' Thus they will have tra- versed the circle of ethical teaching . During ...
... moral works of Plato , Xenophon , Cice- ro , and Plutarch , but in their nightward studies they are to submit to the more determinate sen- tence of Holy Writ . ' Thus they will have tra- versed the circle of ethical teaching . During ...
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... moral good and evil . Then will be requir'd a special reinforcement of constant and sound endoctrinating to set them right and firm , instructing them more amply in the knowledge of Vertue and the hatred of Vice while their young and ...
... moral good and evil . Then will be requir'd a special reinforcement of constant and sound endoctrinating to set them right and firm , instructing them more amply in the knowledge of Vertue and the hatred of Vice while their young and ...
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... moral works of Plato , Xenophon , Cicero , Plutarch , Laertius , and , those Locrian remnants ; but still to be reduc't in their nightward studies wherewith they close the dayes work , under the determinate sentence of David or Salomon ...
... moral works of Plato , Xenophon , Cicero , Plutarch , Laertius , and , those Locrian remnants ; but still to be reduc't in their nightward studies wherewith they close the dayes work , under the determinate sentence of David or Salomon ...
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... with the ancient literature that appertains to them , about the age of 15 or 16 they will approach studies which are to form their moral nature . 1. 23. Proairesis is the deliberate choice between good and 36 NOTES .
... with the ancient literature that appertains to them , about the age of 15 or 16 they will approach studies which are to form their moral nature . 1. 23. Proairesis is the deliberate choice between good and 36 NOTES .
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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...
Page 1 - SCRIPTURES, &c. The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, with the Text revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions...
Page 2 - The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered, and edited with an Introduction and Notes, and a facsimile of the MS., by ROBERT L.
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...
Page 5 - MT Ciceronis de Natura Deorum Libri Tres, with Introduction and Commentary by JOSEPH B. MAYOR, MA, Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London, together with a new collation of several of the English MSS.