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 publick, of peace and war. The Classical Journal - Page 2341812Full view - About this book
| William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...exemplified in the lessons both of ancient and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, " a complete and generous education, which fits a man...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... | |
| William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1804 - 142 pages
...as exemplified in the lessons both of ancient and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, "a complete and generous education, which fits a man...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." • This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate;... | |
| Great Britain - 1807 - 542 pages
...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... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...muscles into freer exercise, which, by too constant use in one direction, not only acquire an illiberal air, but are apt also to lose somewhat of their native...education, which fits a man " to perform justly, skilfully, und magnanimously, all the offices, both private and publick, of peace and war." Thus far then we have... | |
| Edward Copleston - Edinburgh review - 1810 - 208 pages
...of the employments of life, it enriches and ennobles all. Without teaching him the peculiar bufinefs of any one office or calling, it enables him to act...generous education, which fits a man " to perform juftly, fkilfully, and magna.r <' nimoufly, all the offices, both private and pub" lie, of peace and... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1810 - 148 pages
...exemplified in the lessons both of antient and of modern history. " I call that," says Milton, " a complete and generous education, which fits a man...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... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...it enables him to act his part in each of them with better grace and more elevated carriage ; anil, if happily planned and conducted, is a main ingredient...that complete and generous education, which fits a nvm '• to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and publick,... | |
| Edward Copleston - Edinburgh review - 1810 - 208 pages
...in each of them with better grace and more elevated carriage ; and, if happily planned and conduded, is a main ingredient in that complete and generous education, which fits a man " to perform juftly, fkilfully, and magna" nimoufly, all the offices, both private and pub" lie, of peace and war."... | |
| 1811 - 694 pages
...all. Without teaching him the peculiar bufinefs of any one office or calling, it enables him to aft his part in each of them with better grace and more...generous education, which fits a man " to perform judly, flcilfully, and magnanimoufly, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war."... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 696 pages
...peculiar bufinefs of any one office or calling, it enables him td aft his part in each of them wiih better grace and more elevated carriage; and, if happily...generous education, which fits a man " to perform juftly, Ikilfully, and magnanimoufly, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war."... | |
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