...character solid and weighty, as the granite of her mountains. Finally, to give New-Hampshire youth, 'that complete and generous education, which fits...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war,' there is needed a higher seminary or college, in which study...

...true and lasting pleasure ; with which I hope you will be well and long acquainted." I call that a complete and generous education which fits a man to...skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and of war. Milton. ?v ~*, — — — — 191 ~~~I| Day. vI. Cal. 27....

...yet agreed as to iis object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author ; but incapable of being...

...yet agreed as to its object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author ; but incapable of being...

...yet agreed as to its object. Milton proposes it as the aim of the scheme recommended by him, " to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously...offices both private and public of peace and war." A glorious vision, and well worthy of the lofty imagination of its author, but incapable of being realized...

...and Edmonds, in 1630, in a neat volume of 320 pages, 12mo. be considered as complete and generous, which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and of war." This definition is, perhaps, too extensive for the nature of the...

...God." In a well-known passage, he said, " I call, therefore, a completeand generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." [" Hear, hear!"} That the noble sentiments of Milton, expressed...

...This alone can impart a complete and generous education : that which, to use the language of Milton, ' fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' Such a definition, it is obvious, must include the cultivation not only of the intellectual, but also of...

...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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty, less time than is now bestowed in pure...

...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 war (I )" he proceeds to chalk out a general outline of rational studies for young gentlemen...