The laws of life, with special reference to the physical education of girlsSampson Low & Company, 1859 - 172 páginas |
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Página 147 - ... latter necessarily ceased at a certain period of life, gymnastics continued to be cultivated by persons of all ages, though those of an advanced age naturally took lighter and less fatiguing exercises than boys and youths. The ancients, and more especially the Greeks, seem to have been...
Página 12 - ... that the myth which represents the wild strong life of that distant age has a lesson for us, and we should ponder the question whether in our modern days we have not lost much stout virtue, with the failure of our bodily powers. The breakfast feats of good Queen Bess and her maids, on rounds of beef and mugs of ale, seem incredible in our poor dyspeptic days...
Página 97 - ... and out of doors, and convey us from place to place, as duty or pleasure calls us, not only without fatigue, but with the feeling of cheerful energy ; we need strong arms that can cradle a healthy child, and toss it crowing in the air, and backs that will not break under the burden of household cares, a frame that is not exhausted and weakened by the round of daily duties. We...
Página 13 - My lord and lady have set on their table, for breakfast at seven o'clock in the morning, a quart of beer; as much wine ; two pieces of salt fish, six red herrings, four white ones, or a dish of sprats.
Página 50 - ... and the fearful consciousness of deadening life — of a spiritual paralysis, which hinders all response to human interests — when enthusiasm ceases to arouse, and noble deeds no longer call forth the tear of joy; when the world becomes a blank, humanity a far-off sound, and no life is left but the heavy, benumbing weight of personal hopelessness and desolation.
Página 98 - ... an icy barrier, through which the warm feelings of the heart strive in vain to break. We need developed muscles that shall make the human body really a divine image, a perfect form rendering all dress graceful, and not requiring to be patched and filled up and weighed down with clumsy contrivances for hiding its deformities. Bodies that can move in dignity, in grace, in airy lightness, or conscious strength, bodies erect and firm, energetic and active — bodies that are truly sovereign in their...