 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 sider
...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,...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.... | |
 | 1807 - 542 sider
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 sider
...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...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-'... | |
 | 1819 - 496 sider
...better grace and more elevated carriage; and, if happily planned .and conducted, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a...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 Hayley - 1810 - 472 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 sider
...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 - 1818 - 684 sider
...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 - 1820 - 614 sider
...of their tenderest and most docible age. . I call therefore a compleate and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 sider
...of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...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 sider
...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. 
