 | James Bruce - 1853 - 360 pages
...AGESILAUS. THE ancient Spartans paid as much attention to the rearing of men as the cattle-breeders in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They...citizen to extend his body. Those who dared to grow too soft or too fat for military exercise and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular... | |
 | James Bruce - 1854 - 384 pages
...AGESILAUS. THE ancient Spartans paid as much attention to the rearing of men as the cattle-breeders in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They...citizen to extend his body. Those who dared to grow too soft or too fat for military exercise and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular... | |
 | 1854 - 778 pages
...Portraits, that the ancient Spartan paid as much attention to the rearing of men as the cattle dealers in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They took charge of firmness and looseness of men's flesh ; and regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful,... | |
 | William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1857 - 468 pages
...Corpulence. rpHE ancient Spartans paid as much attention to the L rearing of men as the cattle-breeders in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They...flesh, and regulated the degree of fatness to which it is lawful, in a free state, for any citizen to extend his body. Those who dared to grow too fat or... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 pages
...precept, is, that you are never to blow your nose in the presence of any one ! CORPULENCE A CRIME. in a free state, for any citizen to extend his body....who dared to grow too fat, or too soft for military excrcise and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular instance, that of Nauclis,... | |
 | John Richard Houlding - 1867 - 474 pages
...remind his shipmates below that it was time to say, Amen, then strike eight bells, and pipe to <linner!" It is recorded that " the ancient Spartans paid as...soundly whipped. In one particular instance, that of Nauclis, the son of Polybus, the offender was brought before the Ephori, and a meeting of the whole... | |
 | 1874 - 638 pages
...paragraph : "The ancient Spartans paid as much attention to the rearing of men as the cattle breeders of modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They...body. Those who dared to grow too fat or too soft for the military exercise, or the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular instance,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1881 - 358 pages
...firmness' and looseness of men's flesh, and actually regulated 'Brace's "Historic and Classic Portraits." the degree of fatness to which it was lawful, in a free state, for any citizen to plump out his body. Those who had the audacity to grow too fat or too soft for* military exercise and... | |
 | W. M. Searby, Albert Schneider - 1911 - 564 pages
...rearing of men as the cattle dealers do in modern England to the breeding of cattle. They took charge of firmness and looseness of men's flesh; and regulated...for any citizen to extend his body. Those who dared grow too fat, or too soft for military exercises and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In... | |
 | 1911 - 840 pages
...attitude towards them that was taken by the ancient State of Sparta? Those rugged old times had laws that regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful in a free stnte for any citizen to extend his bodily proportions. If anyone dared to become too fat he might... | |
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Spartans paid as much attention to the rearing of men, as the folks in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They took charge of the firmness and looseness of men's flesh, and regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful, in a free state,... 