 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 528 pages
...mere knowledge of books, however necessary and valuable this knowledge may be. Milton says, " I call a complete and generous education, that which fits...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
...the most ambitions 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 tear (.')" he proceeds to chalk out a general outline of rational studies for young gentlemen... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1839 - 636 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 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... | |
 | 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...offices both private and public, of peace and war." But when Milton descends to specify the course of .studies he would recommend, it appears singularly... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 328 pages
...Education, Continued, 258 CHAPTER XIII. Conclusion, 259 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...private and public, of peace and war." — Milton. IN the following pages, it is proposed to inquire, what are the requisites for a good education for... | |
 | 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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." With such views of the uses of learning and the purposes of education, exemplified and illustrated... | |
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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. 
