 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly,... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pages
...have now to haul and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits . to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform... | |
 | William Harper - 1836 - 23 pages
...their fathers, false to themselves, and traitors to their posterity. Milton says truly and nobly, " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices of a citizen, both private and public, of peace and war."... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...the flames : for a time, at least, she was unsettled in mind by the blandishments of royalty. I CALL a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, cheerfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private in peace and war. — fohn Milton.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 pages
...the most ambitions of modern scholars. After declaring, in his own stately manner, that he calls " a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all (!) the offices of peace and tear (.')" he proceeds to chalk out... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 528 pages
...mere knowledge of books, however necessary and valuable this knowledge may be. Milton says, " 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."* Dr. Watts... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pages
...we have now to bale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as...food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly,... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1840 - 328 pages
...Education, Continued, 258 CHAPTER XIII. Conclusion, 259 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. " 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.... | |
 | 1842 - 748 pages
...says in words that have been often quoted, but that will well bear to be quoted again, — " 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." The next... | |
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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. 
