...and successive degrees and stages, is never complete. You remember those noble words of Milton : " I call, therefore, a complete and generous education...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." * But when, in the very next sentence, he proceeds to call attention to the manner in which " all this...

...attainment far more certain, than hath yet been in 5 practice, * * a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." We will not now offer the details of such a plan, farther than they are to be found in the report of...

...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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and...

...grateful smell, old Ocean smiles. Paradise Lost. Book Iv. Line 146. — JOHN MILTON. EDUCATION. A Complete I call, therefore, a complete and generous education,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. Tractate of Education.— JOHN MILTON. EDUCATION. The Best That call not education, which decries God...

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

...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...offices, both private and public, of peace and war," dismisses the subject of diet in the very few words, " that it should be plain, healthful, and moderate."...

...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,...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...

...of the seventeenth century, Milton's noble definition of ' a complete and generous education,' as ' that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war ' — (' all which,' he adds, ' may be done between twelve and one-andtwenty — less time than is...

...Dryden's time, and in ours also, it is— in Milton's words— "the complete and generous education that fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously,...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." A hundred years hence it may mean a scientific education. In Dryden's time it was a learned one. (2)...

...proposed to give is none other than what Milton calls the ' complete and gênerons education' that 'fite a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously...offices, both private and public, of peace and war. ' " This being done, the increased college attendance is a pleasing feature of educational progress....