Careful Words

liberal (n.)

liberal (adj.)

  Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Acts x.

  Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

  The liberal soul shall be made fat.

Old Testament: Proverbs xi. 25.

  Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729): Tatler. No. 49.