 | Yoram Dinstein - Political Science - 1989 - 364 pages
...of providing society with what John Milton called "a complete and generous education," namely, "that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and...offices both private and public of peace and war." This assumption of policymaking responsibility on the part of political institutions, manifested mainly... | |
 | Clive Staples Lewis - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 678 pages
...learning. Let me explain. The purpose of education has been described by Milton as that of fitting a man "to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously...offices both private and public, of peace and war." Provided we do not overstress "skilfully" Aristotle would substantially agree with this, but would... | |
 | Leland Ryken - Religion - 1990 - 306 pages
...rival Milton's in his treatise Of Education: 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.80 The heart of Milton's definition is that a complete education is one... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 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... | |
 | Education - 1991 - 228 pages
...himself in his Tractate on Education thus: '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'. Roger Ascham (1515-1568) Roger Ascham is regarded as the most important of all English humanistic educators... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1995 - 304 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... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...Aphorismers, and Pol1t1casters\M In Oj Education (1644), he contrasted his Ciceronian ideal of education 'that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the oiIices both private and publike of peace and war' with the actual outcome of the 'usuall method of... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...a gradual progression from concrete to abstract concerns. A complete and generous education was one 'which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both pr1vate and public of peace and war', and this large objective could be attained, he thought, 'between... | |
 | Joseph E. Duncan - Religion - 1972 - 349 pages
...education: "to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright," and to fit "a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and publick of Peace and War." The truth possessed by the first parents before their ruin was the source... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...teaching nations how to live. 7491 Of Educatlon 1 call therefore a complete and generous educatlon that ng told that her people had no bread) Qu'ils mangent...Let them eat cake. MARKEL Lester 6985 What you see i 7492 Of Educatlon 'Their Exercise' In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant,... | |
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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. 
