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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. "
Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ... - Page 139
by Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 579 pages
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1833 - 210 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...
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American Annals of Education

William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1833 - 658 pages
...yet agreed as to iis 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...
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American Annals of Education and Instruction, Volume 3

1833 - 632 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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education,...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 pure...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 6; Volume 17

1835 - 386 pages
...This alone can impart a complete and generous education : that which, to use the language of Milton, ' fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' Such a definition, it is obvious, must include the cultivation not only of the intellectual, but also...
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The Student: A Series of Papers, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 382 pages
...the most ambitious of modern scholars. After declaring, in his own stately manner, that he calls " a complete and generous education that which fits...skilfully, and magnanimously, all (! ) the offices of peace and war (I )" he proceeds to chalk out a general outline of rational studies for young gentlemen...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education,...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 pure...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of ...

Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...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...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the ..., Volume 1

1836 - 432 pages
...commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...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 iii...
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Anniversary Oration

William Harper - 1836 - 23 pages
...their fathers, false to themselves, and traitors to their posterity. Milton says truly and nobly, " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...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...
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