...suffice to illustrate Milton's scheme ; of which he says: "I call that a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform, justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. " We need not be surprised that Johnson and others...

...desultory observations in the noble words of Milton, — " I call that a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform 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...

...grateful smell, old Ocean smiles. Paradise Lost. Book Iv. Line 146. — JOHN MILTON. EDUCATION. A Complete I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. Tractate of Education.— JOHN MILTON. EDUCATION....

...therefore, a 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...

...less a man than Miltou, in his ' Tractate of Education,' of that " complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war," dismisses the subject of diet in the very few...

...might be 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...

...the most ambitious of modern scholars. After declaring, in his own stately manner, that he calls " a complete and generous education that which fits...perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices of peace -and war" he proceeds to chalk out a general outline of rational studies for young...

...places the force of custom is in his exaltation. . LORD BACON. Esiayt. Cuttom and Education. I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war . . . inflamed...

...to 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,...

...of the seventeenth century, Milton's noble definition of ' 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 ' — (' all which,' he adds, ' may be done between...