 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.  Science of Education - Page 36by Richard Gause Boone - 1904 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 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...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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 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...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... | |
 | 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 magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." ' Such an education, acting on such a natural disposition, not... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - 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 magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war," and which then only is " complete and generous" (Milton's Prose... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 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 all the offices both private and public of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pages
...them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits...skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 694 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 public, of peace and war." But when Milton descends to specify the course of .studies he... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 328 pages
...258 CHAPTER XIII. Conclusion, 259 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." — Milton. IN the following pages, it is proposed to inquire,... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...which will be useful to the man." And Milton says, " I call that a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." With such views of the uses of learning and the purposes of... | |
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