 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...of ancient 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
...of ancient 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;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1807 - 542 pages
...propriety in 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 - 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, 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
...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 magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." About the same time, also, or in ji644i appeared' \ Areopagitica, a... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...and conducted, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a nvm '• to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all...offices, both private and publick, of peace and war." Thus far then we have considered the utility of those liberal pursuits, which in a refined state of... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...and, if 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 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 magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Who can define a good education in terms more truly Socratic ? Milton,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1810 - 148 pages
...of antient 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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a man " to perform justly, skilfully, und magnanimously, all the offices, both private and publick, of peace and war." Thus far then we have considered the utility of those liberal pursuits, which in a refined state of... | |
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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. 
