...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 magnanimously all the offices both private and publie, of peace and war." But when Milton descends to specify the course of studies he would recommend,...

...admiring them, rather than himself. That education only can be considered as complete and generous, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. 1 One should submit blindly to no one ; preserve the liberty...

...eternity, for duty and for God ; to realize in his person and character, Milton's admirable definition of a complete and generous education, "that which fits...skilfully and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, in peace and war ; " or we may add, all the offices which he owes to himself, to his fellow-men,...

...life. Under the eye of his illustrious father he had received that ' complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' " Such an education, acting on such a natural disposition, not only qualified him to adorn the most...

...be a better and easier path to a complete and generous education, ie an education, as he defines it, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war. The course of study requisite to this high attainment, was to...

...them, as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age. I call, therefore, ; and she says, up and down the town, that her eldest...you : the hath been in good case, and, the truth is, [Liberty of die Press.] I deny not but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth,...

...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...

...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...

...as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docile age. * * * I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. THE CITY OF ROXBURY. It appears from the Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Roxbury,...

...education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." This is...as good as any that can be given. To educate is to develop ; not to make one man all Latin, another all mathematics ; it is to unfold a man indeed, himself...