 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...moral discipline were perfectly in unison with those of Socrates ; he says, in that treatise, " I call a complete and generous education that, which fits...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Who can define a good education in terms more truly Socratic ? Milton, however, in his attachment to... | |
 | 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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Thus far then we have considered the utility of those liberal pursuits, which in a refined state of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 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,... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Electronic books - 1818 - 684 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, ofpeare and war. On these principles, it seems to me essential, that boys should he trained... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 612 pages
...all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a compleate and generous education that which fits a man to perform...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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...declare whether it shall bo condemned or approved. To use the forcible language of Milton, " I call a complete and generous education, that which fits...skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." If a complete and generous education, were in any case or at... | |
 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous ecLication that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war : and how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...commonly set be1* fore them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...That 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 ob• Tractate... | |
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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. 
