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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. "
The American Journal of Education - Page 59
edited by - 1856
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The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A Concise View, of the Principles ...

Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 854 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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. On these principles, I consider it essential that boys should be trained up to military exercises....
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." About the same time, also, or in ji644i appeared' \ Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unli-'...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 6

1819 - 496 pages
...planned .and conducted, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a man " to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all...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...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...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...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...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all...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...
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Discourse Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction: At the ...

Francis Calley Gray - 1832 - 28 pages
...agreed as to its object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all...offices both private and public of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author, but incapable of being realized...
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American Annals of Education and Instruction, Volume 3

1833 - 632 pages
...agreed as to its object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author ; but incapable of being...
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1833 - 210 pages
...agreed as to its object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all...offices both private and public of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author, but incapable of being realized...
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American Annals of Education

William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1833 - 658 pages
...agreed as to iis object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author ; but incapable of being...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all...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...
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