Hidden fields
Books Books
" I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. "
Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt. Repr - Page xix
by William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1805
Full view - About this book

The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Letters Written by the Late Earl of Chatham to His Nephew Thomas Pitt ...

William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...that," says Milton, " a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the 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...
Full view - About this book

Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1804 - 142 pages
...that," says Milton, "a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the 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...
Full view - About this book

The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Interspersed with Original Documents, Volume 1

Alexander Stephens - Great Britain - 1813 - 508 pages
...taiito cupidius insolitas voluptates hausisse." lion, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war," was the best. Nothing excited his indignation so much, as the recent attempts that have been made to...
Full view - About this book

The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 3

James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...Milton, " I call a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." If a complete and generous education, were in any case or at any time requisite, it is for those who...
Full view - About this book

Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their ...

Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...call therefore a complete and generous ecLication that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war : and how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty, less time than is now bestowed in...
Full view - About this book

Southern Review, Volume 1

1828 - 568 pages
...of this part of a "generous education" to fit a man, as Milton expresses it, for performing justly and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. The end of the second is nothing more — its fruit, at least, has been and can be nothing more, than...
Full view - About this book

Essays on School Keeping: Comprising Observations on the Qualifications of ...

Allison Wrifford - School management and organization - 1831 - 198 pages
...generous education,' says the same great authority,' that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war, may be given a youth between twelve and one-andtwenty, less time than is now bestowed in pure trifling...
Full view - About this book

Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Volumes 3-4

New Hampshire Historical Society - 1832 - 744 pages
...New-Hampshire youth, 'that complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war,' there is needed a higher seminary or college, in which study and manual labor shall be conjoined. Manual...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF