A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Bishop Horne.

LEARNING.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.—Proverbs, i. 5.

Cease to do evil; Learn to do well.—Isaiah, i. 16, 17.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.—Romans, xv. 4.

What is the pomp of learning? the parade

Of letters and of tongues? Even as the mists

Of the grey morn before the rising sun,

That pass away and perish. Earthly things