A Boy's Control and Self-expressionE. P. Dutton, 1904 - 572 pages |
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A. C. Benson action all-round fitness athletics attractive Bedales better blood blood-pressure body boy's brain breathing C. B. Fry Chapter child constipation Cricket diaphragm diet directly you begin drill effects especially exer expression feel flesh-foods frown or grip fruits Give up exercises grip needlessly gymnastics habit hand Horace Fletcher idea imagination Increase the extent instance instinct keep learn to recall leisurely eating less lessons lungs Master each exercise mastication meal memory mental mind mistakes movements muscles muscular nerves once organs perhaps person Physical Educator play the game pleasant poise position practice prayer Proteid purins realise relaxed remedial repetitions self-control self-expression self-respect self-suggestion sensible side Stop directly suggested suit taught teaching temptation things thought tion uric acid whole wholemeal words wrong
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Page 478 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle .wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 488 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 461 - Counsel is of two sorts; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business: for the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Page 79 - She must be enduringly, incorruptibly good; instinctively, infallibly wise — wise, not for self-development, but for self-renunciation : wise, not that she may set herself above her husband, but that she may never fail from his side: wise, not with the narrowness of insolent and loveless pride, but with the passionate gentleness of an infinitely variable, because infinitely applicable, modesty of service — the true changefulness of woman. In that great sense — "La donna e mobile...
Page 322 - Wellington truly said that the Battle of Waterloo was won in the playing fields of Eton.
Page 166 - Perhaps nothing will so much hasten the time when body and mind will both be adequately cared for, as a diffusion of the belief that the preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Men's habitual words and acts imply the idea that they are at liberty to treat their bodies as they please. Disorders entailed by disobedience to Nature's dictates, they regard simply as grievances: not as the effects of a conduct more or less flagitious. Though...
Page 484 - I pursue you where none else has pursued you ; Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustomed routine, if these conceal you from others, or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me ; The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others, they do not balk me ; The pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside. There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you ; There is no virtue,...
Page 481 - ... of precious and restful thoughts which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us ; houses built without hands, for our souls to live in.
Page 433 - Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all these.
Page 491 - They must have enough knowledge of the world to see the vanity of it, and enough virtue to despise all vanity ; if the mind be possessed with any lust or passions, a man had better be in a fair, than in a wood alone.