Excerpt from Patriotism: Address Delivered to the Students of the University of GlasgowMilton, who spoke in his letter on Education of living to be brave men and worthy patriots. But by the end of the century the modern use of the word was fully established, and when Dryden writes of men who usurped a patriot's all attoning name, patriot is used alone and without an adjective as equivalent to a good son of his country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.