Physical Culture of the Emerson College of Oratory, BostonEmerson College of Oratory Pub. Department, 1891 - 154 pages |
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98 degrees arms and legs articulation attitude beauty become bend blood body brain breath carry the arm cause centres chest child clothing cold degree developed diaphragm diet disease dyspepsia Emerson College energy entire ESTHETIC VALUE feeling FIGURE floating ribs foot force forearm leading fourth division gastric juice give grace Greek groups of muscles habit hand harmony head hips human hundred HYGIENIC VALUE lift live longevity lungs mind move MOVEMENTS IN CURVES muscular sense nature neck nerves nervous nourishment obey opposite palm Pectoralis minor perfect peristaltic wave person physical culture physical exercises physiological pneumogastric poise practised PRINCIPAL MUSCLES INVOLVED proper reflex action relationship Repeat respiration securing shoulders sick side sleep soul Spanish Inquisition spinal spinal cord stomach strength superior vocal cords sympathetic nerves system of physical thereby torso unity vigorous exercise vital organs waist
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Page 97 - I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth:'— As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; — Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect...
Page 92 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.
Page 92 - Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one — Nothing is fair or good alone.
Page 128 - I procured an alarum, which waked me the next morning at seven, (nearly an hour earlier than I rose the day before,) yet I lay awake again at night. The second morning I rose at six ; but notwithstanding this, I lay awake the second night. The third morning I rose at five ; but nevertheless, I lay awake the third night. The fourth morning...
Page 143 - Ibs., by a young man, whose health had been indifferent at the beginning of the experiment. Only two prisoners lost at all in weight, and the quantity in each case was trifling. The prisoners all expressed themselves quite satisfied with this diet, and regretted the change back again to the ordinary diet.
Page 128 - ... sleep ; healthy women, a little above seven, in four and twenty. If any one desires to know exactly what quantity of sleep his own constitution requires, he may very easily make the experiment, which I made about sixty years ago. I then waked every night about twelve or one, and lay awake for some time. I readily concluded, that this arose from my being in bed longer than nature required.
Page 40 - ... lifting the soul into the realms of goodness, of beauty, of truth, of pulsating divine life, and then practising methods of exercise for the body that will invite those beneficent impulses to pass into and through it. Away with the physical culture that makes the body the drudge and the slave ! Practise the physical culture that lifts the body until one might really say that the body thinks, — until every fibre of its being shall pulsate under the inspiring touch of thought. Men say to us,...