Subscription No Bondage, Or the Practical Advantages Afforded by the Thirty-nine Articles as Guides in All the Branches of Academical Education: With an Introductory Letter on the Declaration which it is Proposed to Substitute for Subscription to the Articles at Matriculation

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J.H. Parker, 1835 - 125 páginas
 

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Página 71 - Latin schools may have fixed in our minds a standard of exclusive taste ; and I am not forward to condemn the literature and judgment of nations, of whose language I am ignorant. Yet I know that the classics have much to teach, and I believe that the Orientals have much to learn ; the temperate dignity of style, the graceful proportions of art, the forms of visible and intellectual beauty...
Página 115 - I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word: that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they may be one in us...
Página 119 - heretical pravity" from the minds of students, and " the bringing up of youth in the knowledge and fear of God, in all manner of good learning and virtuous education, whereby after they may serve their Prince and Country in divers callings, for which respect...
Página 70 - Greek interpreters were chosen among their Christian subjects; they formed their translations, sometimes on the original text, more frequently perhaps on a Syriac version: and in the crowd of astronomers and physicians there is no example of a poet, an orator, or even an historian being taught to speak the language of the Saracens. The mythology of Homer would have provoked the abhorrence of those stern fanatics. They possessed in lazy ignorance the colonies of the Macedonians, and the provinces...
Página 22 - Universities is, not that she imposes conditions of thought upon her students, and that they assent and consent to them ; for so far all institutions are alike ; but that she states what are her conditions of thought.
Página 13 - conditions of thought, primarily designed to assist education by warning students against superstitions, which have hindered, and are likely to hinder, the pursuit of knowledge, and the attainment of truth.
Página 71 - The philosophers of Athens and Rome enjoyed the blessings, and asserted the rights, of civil and religious freedom. Their moral and political writings might have gradually unlocked the fetters of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages to suspect that their caliph was a tyrant and their prophet an impostor.
Página 82 - the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants.
Página 94 - ... the glorious company of the Apostles, and the noble army of martyrs...

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