A Boy's Control and Self-expressionE. P. Dutton, 1904 - 572 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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 least 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 things thought tion uric acid whole wholemeal words wrong
Popular passages
Page 476 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman 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 479 - None of us yet know, for none of us have yet been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought — proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses 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 429 - 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. Not possibly will the soul all rich, all eloquent, with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature.
Page 486 - 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 459 - 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 427 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another...
Page 164 - Though the evil consequences inflicted on their dependents, and on future generations, are often as great as those caused by crime; yet they do not think themselves in any degree criminal. It is true that, in the case of drunkenness, the viciousness of a...
Page 479 - MAKE yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts ! None of us yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts, proof against all adversity...
Page 434 - Fearlessness, singleness of soul, the will Always to strive for wisdom ; opened hand And governed appetites ; and piety, And love of lonely study; humbleness, Uprightness, heed to injure...
Page 255 - Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.