 | 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...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... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1832 - 744 pages
...character solid and weighty, as the granite of her mountains. Finally, to give New-Hampshire youth, 'that complete and generous education, which fits a man...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...and Edmonds, in 1630, in a neat volume of 320 pages, 12mo. be considered as complete and generous, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and of war." This definition is, perhaps, too extensive for the nature of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1834 - 738 pages
...God." In a well-known passage, he said, " I call, therefore, a completeand generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." [" Hear, hear!"} That the noble sentiments of Milton, expressed... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...entertainment 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 382 pages
...After declaring, in his own stately manner, that he calls " a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, 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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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. 
