...penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war... .But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them [the learners] with lectures and explanations...

...penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war... .But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them [the learners] with lectures and explanations...

...which, we avow, we regard with a certain sneaking affection, they thought adequate to fit a youth " to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all...offices both private and public of peace and war." The Greeks acknowledged the various claims of grammar, music, mathematics, and eloquence, as a foundation...

...penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. 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—But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them [the...

...penetrate the knots of business and affairs.—Bacon. 6. 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—But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them [the...

...the practical conduct of affairs. His education was like that which Milton describes as " fitting to a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." His opinions were definite and fixed ; were held with the confidence...

...of their tenderest and most docible age.9 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.16 And how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty, less...

...his letter to Master Hartlib. "I call, therefore," says he, "a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform, justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." Anniversary Sermon preached before the Society of Gentlemen educated in the King's School, August 26th...

...declares, in the true spirit of Renaissance Humanism, "I call ... a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He opposes early emphasis on such "abstract" studies as rhetoric and logic, insisting on a great variety...

...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...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...