 | Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 852 pages
...justly observes, that the training up of youth cannot be considered as complete and generous, unless it fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. On these principles, I consider it essential that boys should be trained up to military exercises.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...which disturb the course of ordinary life. Under the eye of his illustrious father he had received that " complete and generous education which fits...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...just, and ought to be kept steadily in view. " I call (says he) a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." About the same time, also, or in ji644i appeared' \ Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unli-'... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...the employments of life, it enriches and ennobles all. Without teaching hint the peculiar business of any one office or calling, it enables him to act...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Thus far then we have considered the utility of those liberal pursuits, which in a refined state of... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...with those of Socrates ; he says, in that treatise, " I call a complete and generous education that, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Who can define a good education in terms more truly Socratic ? Milton, however, in his attachment to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...of their tenderest and most docible age. 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. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty, less time than is now bestowed in pure... | |
 | Francis Calley Gray - Education - 1832 - 28 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... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 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... | |
 | Education - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
| |
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. 
