 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...approved. To use the forcible language of Milton, " I call a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." If a complete and generous education, were in any case or at... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous ecLication that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war : and how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...their tenderest and most docible age. 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. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty, less... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...arrive at the first eminence ; and in which he will perhaps be the more likely to excel, the more he has concentrated the whole force of his mind to one...I hope it will not be supposed, from the foregoing ob• Tractate of Education. serrations, that they are meant to recommend an indiscriminate attention... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - 910 pages
...Milton, (Tractate of Education,') ( That education only can be considered as complete and generous, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices both private and public, of peace, and of war.' The system of education adopted at the military academy we think peculiarly adapted to produce such... | |
 | 1831 - 858 pages
...proportion as he benefits others. Milton defines that to be a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace arid war. At Hofwyl, scholastic instruction is in the education of the rich, what... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - 1831 - 198 pages
...arts in due order.' ' A complete and generous education,' says the same great authority,' that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war, may be given a youth between twelve and one-andtwenty, less time... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1832 - 744 pages
...of her mountains. Finally, to give New-Hampshire youth, 'that complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war,' there is needed a higher seminary or college, in which study... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...which I hope you will be well and long acquainted." I call that a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and of war. Milton. ?v ~*, — — — — 191 ~~~I| Day. vI. Cal. 27.... | |
 | Francis Calley Gray - 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 all the offices both private and public of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author,... | |
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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. 
