...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." And it should be our* object that every youth...

...that he was a peculiar gift of Heaven, reared and trained to be the deliverer of his people ; fitted " to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of war and peace." In the delicate and trying situations in which he was placed, how easy it is to see,...

...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 understands the suitable education of children to...

...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 a general outline of rational studies for young gentlemen...

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...of ancient and of modern history. ' I call that,' says Milton, ' a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both public and private, of peace and war.' " This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate ; the test of all intellectual and all...

...of ancient and of modern history. ' I call that,' says Milton, ' a complete and generous education, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both public and private, of peace and war.' " This is the purpose to which all knowledge is subordinate ; the test of all intellectual and all...

...entertainment 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 magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and. one and twenty,...

...the increase of knowledge, as the expansion and strengthening the intellectual and moral powers, " which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war," and which then only is " complete and generous" (Milton's Prose...