| Emily Davies - 1988 - 262 Seiten
...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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war,' the words might still, perhaps, bear a common interpretation ; but as soon as he comes to describing... | |
| Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 364 Seiten
...providing society with what John Milton called "a complete and generous education," namely, "that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices both private and public of peace and war." This assumption of policymaking responsibility on the part of political institutions, manifested mainly... | |
| Clive Staples Lewis - 1989 - 678 Seiten
...learning. Let me explain. The purpose of education has been described by Milton as that of fitting a man "to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously...offices both private and public, of peace and war." Provided we do not overstress "skilfully" Aristotle would substantially agree with this, but would... | |
| Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 Seiten
...Milton's in his treatise Of Education: 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.80 The heart of Milton's definition is that a complete education is one... | |
| Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 Seiten
...inspired every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, "to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared, that "he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to... | |
| 1991 - 228 Seiten
...himself in his Tractate on Education thus: 'I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices both private and public of peace and war'. Roger Ascham (1515-1568) Roger Ascham is regarded as the most important of all English humanistic educators... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 Seiten
...inspired every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, "to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared that "he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to... | |
| David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - 1998 - 300 Seiten
...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 and reveals much about... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 Seiten
...gradual progression from concrete to abstract concerns. A complete and generous education was one 'which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both pr1vate and public of peace and war', and this large objective could be attained, he thought, 'between... | |
| Joseph E. Duncan - 1972 - 349 Seiten
...education: "to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright," and to fit "a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and publick of Peace and War." The truth possessed by the first parents before their ruin was the source... | |
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