 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...like him," and shortly afterwards declares, in the true spirit of Renaissance Humanism, "I call ... a complete and generous education that which fits...perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He opposes early emphasis on such "abstract" studies... | |
 | Katherine U. Henderson, Barbara F. McManus - Women - 1985 - 404 pages
...God aright," the second, equally stressed by Milton, is readiness for the active life on this earth: "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." 74 The second... | |
 | Emily Davies - History - 1988 - 262 pages
...might be 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... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - Political Science - 1989 - 364 pages
...task of providing society with what John Milton called "a complete and generous education," namely, "that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war." This assumption of policymaking responsibility on... | |
 | Leland Ryken - Religion - 1990 - 306 pages
...capable and qualified person. No statement of that ideal can rival Milton's in his treatise Of Education: I call therefore a complete and generous education...perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.80 The heart of Milton's definition is that a complete... | |
 | Harold Dwight Lasswell, Myres Smith Macdougal - Law - 1992 - 1642 pages
...before human society. A greatly enriched idea of education was gaining currency, and John Milton wrote, "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war."14 It must... | |
 | Education - 1991 - 228 pages
...that he was, inspired John Milton (1608-1674) to express himself in his Tractate on Education thus: 'I call therefore a complete and generous education...perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war'. Roger Ascham (1515-1568) Roger Ascham is regarded... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...be transformed. He begins with a grandiloquent statement of his ideal: '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.'47 Milton's terminology is nevertheless precise... | |
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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. 
