 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 pages
...faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found it selfe but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the...inferior creature ; the same method is necessarily to be follow'd in all discreet teaching. And seeing every nation affords not experience, and tradition anough... | |
 | 1820 - 606 pages
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest, by possessing our souls of true vertue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith,...because our understanding cannot in this body found it selfe but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible,... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...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...creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in discreet teaching. And seeing every nation affords not experience and tradition, enough for all kinds... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...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...arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things in» visible, as by orderly conning over the invisible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1855 - 1214 pages
...to lore Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may tho nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue ; which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Now, the distinguishing characteristic of our parochial school education is, according to its first... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 pages
...Milton's Сотги. , Uriel, no wonder if thy perfect sight See far and wide. Milton. True virtue being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. Id. Beauty now must perfect my renowa ; With that I governed him that rules this isle. Waller. ' Praise... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...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." If Plato had lived in the days of Milton, and under the same dispensation, he would have written thus.... | |
 | 1835 - 716 pages
...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." And these are the suggestions of the truest and most practical wisdom not less than of venerable names... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1835 - 614 pages
...to lovo him, to imitate him, to he like him, ns 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." And these nre the suggestions of the truest and most practical wisdom not less than of venerable names... | |
 | 1835 - 458 pages
...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." Locke says—"It is virtue then—direct virtue, which is the head and valuable part to be aimed at... | |
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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... 
