 | Law - 1844 - 546 pages
...and, if happily planned and conducted, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a man " to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." ' " But to pass from the consideration of the dangers common to all, and to proceed to what is peculiar... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...inspired every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared that " he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1843 - 678 pages
...aim of education than what was in use. " That," he says, " I call a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and publie, of peace and war." But when Milton descends to specify the course of studies he would recommend,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...admiring them, rather than himself. That education only can be considered as complete and generous, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. 1 One should submit blindly to no one ; preserve the liberty... | |
 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - Great Britain - 1846 - 488 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1846 - 332 pages
...his person and character, Milton's admirable definition of a complete and generous education, "that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, in peace and war ; " or we may add, all the offices which he owes to himself, to his fellow-men,... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...be a better and easier path to a complete and generous education, ie an education, as he defines it, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war. The course of study requisite to this high attainment, was to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...of their tenderest and most docile age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that at her eldest son is like you : the hath been in good case, and, the truth is, [Liberty of die Press.] I deny not but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth,... | |
 | Literature - 1847 - 610 pages
...inspired every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, ' to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' He declared that ' he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to... | |
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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. 
