 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
 | 1902 - 414 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,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 200 pages
...busy with him lately, ' our province is virtue and religion, life and manners, the science ofimproving the temper and making the heart better. This is the...much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. He who should find out one rule to assist us in this work would deserve infinitely better of mankind... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 472 pages
...Butler, whose sayings come the more readily to my mind because I have been very busy with him lately, ' our province is virtue and religion, life and manners,...much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. He who should find out one rule to assist us in this work would deserve infinitely better of mankind... | |
 | Education - 1906 - 660 pages
...moral knowledge and moral sense. He is asked to bear in mind the famous words of Bishop Butler — " Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners,...improving the temper and making the heart better. He who should find out one rule to assist us in this work would deserve infinitely better of mankind... | |
 | William Salter - Congregational churches - 1907 - 374 pages
...temper and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate. How much it has been neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably...our power. What remains is that we learn to keep our hearts, to govern our passions. He who should find out one rule to assist us in this work would deserve... | |
 | William Salter - Congregational churches - 1907 - 374 pages
...the whole duty of man has appeared in the English language. With pathos and tenderness Butler says: "Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners;...the field assigned us to cultivate. How much it has been neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably the happiness of man. It consists in good... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - Education - 1909 - 392 pages
...to discharge his daily duties who had constantly in his mind the famous words of Bishop Butler's : " Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners,...improving the temper and making the heart better. He who should find out one rule to assist us in this work would deserve infinitely better of mankind... | |
 | Albert Edward Baker - 1923 - 150 pages
...follow them, and not despise the little light we have, because it is not the full glare of noon. 2 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. (c) The Analogy of Religion... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Protestantism - 1924 - 430 pages
...whose sayings come the more readily to my mind because I have been very busy with him lately, " OUT province is virtue and religion, life and manners,...much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. He who should find out one rule to assist us in this work would deserve infinitely better of mankind... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - History - 2000 - 1092 pages
...our proper business, and esteem everything else nothing, nothing as to us, in comparison of it. . . . 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. ... He who should find out... | |
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