...with the noble idea of education inculcated by the writer* whose words we have just quoted — that " generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." To conclude : reflecting on its history and the kind of...

...remember those noble words of Milton : " 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." * But when, in the very next sentence, he proceeds to call...

...and speak the truth always. H This brief summary may suffice to illustrate Milton's scheme ; of which he says: "I call that a complete and generous education...justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. " We need not be surprised that Johnson and others have...

...country what it now is. We may conclude these desultory observations in the noble words of Milton, — " I call that a complete and generous education which...justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first...

...146. — JOHN MILTON. EDUCATION. A Complete 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. Tractate of Education.— JOHN MILTON. EDUCATION. The Best...

...prefer a learned profession. No less a man than Miltou, in his ' Tractate of Education,' of that " complete and generous education which fits a man to...justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war," dismisses the subject of diet in the very few words, "...

...his nature that he may be fitted to act well his part upon the theatre of life. Saya John Milton, " I call that a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform skillfully, magnanimously and justly all the offices, both public and private, of peace and of war...

...complete and generous education " — the words have been quoted a thousand times before — " that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war"? And now, gentlemen, though I am sure that the answer I...

...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 magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war,' the words might still, perhaps, bear a common interpretation...

...require that the noble idea of a ' complete and generous education,' indicated by Milton, viz., ' that which fits a man to perform justly, ' skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and ' private, of peace and war,' should be fully realized. The question, then, is whether...