 Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners ; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate : how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.  The English Journal of Education - Page 431847Full view - About this book
 | Mark Pattison - Church and state - 1889 - 460 pages
...and 1 AJ Vaughan, Essays, vol. I. p. 61. 1 Vermischte Schriften, I. 193. Essays and Reviews, 1860.] manners; the science of improving the temper and making the heart better. This is the field assigned to us to cultivate ; how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. . . . He who should find... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - Presbyterian Church - 1893 - 296 pages
...far wiser man who said 'that knowledge is not our proper happiness. Our province, he went on to say, is virtue and religion, life and manners : the science...much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Now, my brethren, two dangers, two simply terrible dangers, arise to every one of you out of all this... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 484 pages
...tive knowledge, in comparison with rebusque bonis et nialis quaerere.' that which was useful for human and manners ; the science of improving the temper,...proceeding from a good principle, temper, or heart. Overtacts are entirely in our power. What remains is, that we learn to keep our heart ; to govern and... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Apologetics - 1896 - 488 pages
...collocavit, et in domos etiam inscience, and of all merely specula- troduxit.etcoegitdevitaetmoribus and manners ; the science of improving the temper,...proceeding from a good principle, temper, or heart. Overtacts are entirely in our power. What remains is, that we learn to keep our heart ; to govern and... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - Bible - 1896 - 332 pages
...not our proper happiness. With all his immense weight Butler has impressed upon us that our proper province is virtue and religion, life and manners...better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate, he exclaims, and how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing! And thus it is that Moses, so... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1901 - 310 pages
...that only guide which makes us pass our days in our own favour and approbation. SIR RICHARD STEELE. Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners...making the heart better. This is the field assigned to us to cultivate; how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. BISHOP BUTLER. Every age... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1901 - 314 pages
...that only guide which makes us pass our days in our own favour and approbation. SIR RICHARD STEELE. Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners...making the heart better. This is the field assigned to us to cultivate ; how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. BISHOP BUTLER. Every age... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1901 - 314 pages
...manners ; the science of improving the temper and making the heart better. This is the field assigned to us to cultivate ; how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. BISHOP BUTLER. Every age seems to have its favourite pursuits which serve to amuse the idle and relieve... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Europe - 1902 - 412 pages
...is that which teaches us our duty or assists us in the discharge of it." " Our province is virtue, religion, life, and manners ; the science of improving the temper and making the heart better." The " beauty " of morality, the judicious " calculation " involved in determining our proper course,... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Europe - 1902 - 408 pages
...is that which teaches us our duty or assists us in the discharge of it." " Our province is virtue, religion, life, and manners ; the science of improving the temper and making the heart better." The " beauty " of morality, the judicious " calculation " involved in determining our proper course,... | |
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