| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits...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... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 694 pages
...aim of education than what was in use. " That," he says, " I call a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices both private and public, of peace and war." But when Milton descends to specify the course of .studies he would recommend, it appears singularly... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 328 pages
...258 CHAPTER XIII. Conclusion, 259 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." — Milton. IN the following pages, it is proposed to inquire, what are the requisites for a good education... | |
| Alexander Young - 1840 - 244 pages
...which will be useful to the man." And Milton says, " I call that a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." With such views of the uses of learning and the purposes of education, exemplified and illustrated... | |
| Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...which will be useful to the man." And Milton says, " I call that a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." With such views of the uses of learning and the purposes of education, exemplified and illustrated... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 300 pages
...MANUAL. CHAPTER I. 1NTROD UCTORY. " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which lita man to perform, justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." — Milton. IN the following pages, it is proposed to inquire, what are the requisites-for a good education... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1841 - 506 pages
...Rome was eminently one designed to develop all the faculties — in the language of Milton, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and of war." Fenelon was of opinion, that it was of the first consequence " that... | |
| Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 pages
...fulfilling the mission assigned them by God. Milton has called that " a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and of war." It is evident that such an education can be enjoyed by few ; and... | |
| 1844 - 546 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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." ' " But to pass from the consideration of the dangers common to all, and to proceed to what is peculiar... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...inspired every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared that " he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to... | |
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