Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts from Other Writings of Milton |
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... faith in popular government , Milton had for the time lost faith in higher education . * Though not utilitarian , then , in the narrower sense of directly teaching industrial arts , the plan of studies outlined in the Tractate has ...
... faith in popular government , Milton had for the time lost faith in higher education . * Though not utilitarian , then , in the narrower sense of directly teaching industrial arts , the plan of studies outlined in the Tractate has ...
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... faith in the importance attached by Bacon to the natural sciences - perhaps even over- emphasizing that importance - Comenius would make the study 1 Watson , Vives on Education , p . 166 . · 2 See below , pp . 43-7 . See below , pp ...
... faith in the importance attached by Bacon to the natural sciences - perhaps even over- emphasizing that importance - Comenius would make the study 1 Watson , Vives on Education , p . 166 . · 2 See below , pp . 43-7 . See below , pp ...
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... faith . Hence the passionate note discernible in all that he has to say concerning the function of ancient literature in the education of the new generation . To deny the claims of antique learning was to take stand against human ...
... faith . Hence the passionate note discernible in all that he has to say concerning the function of ancient literature in the education of the new generation . To deny the claims of antique learning was to take stand against human ...
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... Faith , and the Ten Commandments , in English , is an early instance of the recognition of the vernacular in teaching . The reorganization of St. Paul's School was probably the first important step toward introducing the new learning ...
... Faith , and the Ten Commandments , in English , is an early instance of the recognition of the vernacular in teaching . The reorganization of St. Paul's School was probably the first important step toward introducing the new learning ...
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... faith in Christian- ity and habitual obedience to its moral precepts . The one is Hellenic , and is perhaps best exemplified in Plato ; the other is Hebraic , and attains to its complete development in the New Testament Having ...
... faith in Christian- ity and habitual obedience to its moral precepts . The one is Hellenic , and is perhaps best exemplified in Plato ; the other is Hebraic , and attains to its complete development in the New Testament Having ...
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Page 135 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 250 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 87 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 52 - 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 163 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 177 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 106 - Cyriack, this three-years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 169 - Spanish poets of prime note, have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page 168 - The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter...
Page 44 - To whom the patriarch of mankind replied : O favourable spirit, propitious guest, Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set From centre to circumference, whereon, In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.