 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 strani
...penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. I call 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... .But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them [the... | |
 | William D'Arcy Haley - 1855 - 180 strani
...the most part makes it so." — SOUTH. '• 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." — MILTON. WHEN I hear of a self-made man, I am always tempted to inquire,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 strani
...penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. I call 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—But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them [the... | |
 | 1855 - 586 strani
...the practical conduct of affairs. His education was like that which Milton describes as " fitting to a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." His opinions were definite and fixed ; were held with the confidence... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 strani
...of their tenderest and most docible age.9 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.16 And how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty, less... | |
 | 1857 - 1266 strani
...to lead up to the pursuits of after life." (P. 6, 7.) Milton defines liberal education to be " that generous education which fits a man to perform justly,...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war ;" and Dr. Arnold speaks of it as the object of education to "train... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 strani
...his letter to Master Hartlib. "I call, therefore," says he, "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." Anniversary Sermon preached before the Society of Gentlemen educated... | |
 | 1856 - 368 strani
...generous education (followed closely by Locke in his account of the education of a gentleman), ' that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' Though the term ' private' is vague, yet the expression ' offices of... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 strani
...declares, in the true spirit of Renaissance Humanism, "I call ... 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." He opposes early emphasis on such "abstract" studies as rhetoric and... | |
 | Emily Davies - 1988 - 262 strani
...taken in a general sense ; and when he goes on to define a complete and generous education as 'that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war,' the words might still, perhaps, bear a common interpretation ; but as... | |
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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. 
