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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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The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 17

1871 - 438 pages
...— numerous possibilities of the most enlightened citizenship. "I call, therefore," says Milton, " a complete and generous education that which fits...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." The public duties of peace and of war ; but pre-eminently, let us hope, in this republic, for generations...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 22

1871 - 926 pages
...commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age.9 I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.16 And how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty, less...
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...perfection. The second definition makes clear what is meant by the emphasis on virtue in the first : I call therefore a complete and generous education...offices both private and public of peace and war. It is this large design that Milton had in mind for himself during his years of preparation. If it...
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A Critical History of English Literature: Shakespeare to Milton, Volume 2

David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...like him," and shortly afterwards declares, in the true spirit of Renaissance Humanism, "I call ... a complete and generous education that which fits...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He opposes early emphasis on such "abstract" studies as rhetoric and logic, insisting on a great variety...
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The Higher Education of Women, 1866

Emily Davies - 1988 - 262 pages
...might be taken in a general sense ; and when he goes on to define a complete and generous education as 'that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war,' the words might still, perhaps, bear a common interpretation ; but as soon as he comes to describing...
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Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 1979, Volume 9

Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 364 pages
...task of providing society with what John Milton called "a complete and generous education," namely, "that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully...offices both private and public of peace and war." This assumption of policymaking responsibility on the part of political institutions, manifested mainly...
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The Quotable Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis - 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...
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Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were

Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 pages
...capable and qualified person. No statement of that ideal can rival Milton's in his treatise Of Education: I call therefore a complete and generous education...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...
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The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the ...

Kevin P. Van Anglen - 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...
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Education for the Student Teacher (1995 Syllabus)

1991 - 228 pages
...that he was, inspired John Milton (1608-1674) to express himself in his Tractate on Education thus: 'I call therefore a complete and generous education...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...
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