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" I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war. "
The First Book of Virgil's Aeneid, with a Literal Interlinear Translation ... - Page xii
by Virgil - 1829 - 89 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...them, as exemplified in the whole course of his public career, without admitting, ' that he ' performed justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, • both public and private, of peace and war. ' But, will the constitution, established under his auspices, have that endurance of which he seems...
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Letters Written by the Late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt ...

William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...of ancient and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, " a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both public and private, of peace and war." This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate; the test of all intellectual and all moral...
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Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1804 - 142 pages
...of ancient and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, "a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both public and private, of peace and war." • This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate; the test of all intellectual and all...
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Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt. Repr

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1805 - 154 pages
...says Milton, ".& complete and generous, education, which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and; private, of peace and war." •.: : • i i- * * This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate; the test of all intellectual...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 11

Great Britain - 1807 - 542 pages
...propriety in the definition, which Miltou has given of a " complete and generous education," as thnt " which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private niia public, of peace and war." Let ns, then, apply this definition ns a test to ascertain...
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The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A Concise View, of the Principles ...

Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 852 pages
...justly observes, that the training up of youth cannot be considered as complete and generous, unless it fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. On these principles, I consider it essential that boys should...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...just, and ought to be kept steadily in view. " I call (says he) a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." About the same time, also, or in ji644i appeared' \ Areopagitica,...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...as exemplified in the' whole course of his public career, without admitting, ' that he * performed justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, ' both public and private, of peace and war.' But, will the constitution, established under his auspices, have that endurance of which he seems to...
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Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt. Repr

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1810 - 148 pages
...of antient and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, " a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both public and private, of peace and war." This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate; the test of all intellectual and all moral...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...unison with those of Socrates ; he says, in that treatise, " I call a complete and generous education that, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Who can define a good education in terms more truly Socratic...
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