 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices both private and public of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one-and- twenty, less time than is now bestowed in... | |
 | William Harper - Slavery - 1836 - 23 pages
...posterity. Milton says truly and nobly, " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices of a citizen, both private and public, of peace and war." And it should be our* object that every youth... | |
 | Jasper Adams - Christian ethics - 1837 - 532 pages
...necessary and valuable this knowledge may be. Milton says, " I call a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war."* Dr. Watts understands the suitable education of children to consist in " the instruction of them in... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 pages
...After declaring, in his own stately manner, that he calls " a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all (!) the offices of peace and tear (.')" he proceeds to chalk out a general outline of rational studies for young gentlemen... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...life. Under the eye of his illustrious father he had received that " complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." ' Such an education, acting on such a natural disposition, not only qualified him to adorn the most... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - Bible - 1838 - 470 pages
...the increase of knowledge, as the expansion and strengthening the intellectual and moral powers, " which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war," and which then only is " complete and generous" (Milton's Prose Works, 1. 144. 1753)— with greater... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1833 - 216 pages
...yet agreed as to its object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices both private and public of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author, but incapable of being realized... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - Hygiene - 1838 - 360 pages
...illustrious father he had received that ' complete and generous education which fits a man to perform p justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' " Such an education, acting on such a natural disposition, not only qualified him to adorn the most... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 534 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 magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.' " This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 528 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 magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.' " This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate... | |
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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. 
