 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1804 - 154 pages
...and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, " 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 war." This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate; the... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1804 - 142 pages
...and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, "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 war." • This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate;... | |
 | 1807 - 542 pages
...the definition, which Miltou has given of a " complete and generous education," as thnt " which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private niia public, of peace and war." Let ns, then, apply this definition ns a test to ascertain the merits... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 pages
...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, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. On these principles, I consider it essential that boys should be trained... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." About the same time, also, or in ji644i appeared' \ Areopagitica, a... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...of Socrates ; he says, in that treatise, " I call 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." Who can define a good education in terms more truly Socratic ? Milton,... | |
 | 1819 - 496 pages
...happily planned .and conducted, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a man " to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Thus far then we have considered the utility of those liberal pursuits,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1810 - 148 pages
...and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, " 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 war." This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate; the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...education only can be considered as complete and *' generous, which" (in the language of Milton) " fits a " man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, " all the offices, both private and public, of peace, and "of war."* I hope it will not be supposed, from the foregoing observations,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 pages
...tenderest and most docible age. . I call therefore a compleate and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and publike of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty, lesse... | |
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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. 
