Out-door PapersTicknor and Fields, 1863 - Počet stran: 370 |
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... tion , that admiration of physical strength belonged to the barbarous ages of the world . So it certainly did , and so the race was kept alive through those ages . They had that one merit , at least ; and so surely as an exclusively ...
... tion , that admiration of physical strength belonged to the barbarous ages of the world . So it certainly did , and so the race was kept alive through those ages . They had that one merit , at least ; and so surely as an exclusively ...
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... tion . and that is the argument now in ques- ! A great physician has said , " I know not which is most indispensable for the support of the frame , food or ex- ercise . " But who , in this community , really takes exer- cise ? Even the ...
... tion . and that is the argument now in ques- ! A great physician has said , " I know not which is most indispensable for the support of the frame , food or ex- ercise . " But who , in this community , really takes exer- cise ? Even the ...
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... tion , was suddenly removed , the next season , to make room for coal - bins . Manly sports were not positively discouraged in those days , but that was all . · Yet earlier reminiscences of the same beloved Cam- bridge suggest deeper ...
... tion , was suddenly removed , the next season , to make room for coal - bins . Manly sports were not positively discouraged in those days , but that was all . · Yet earlier reminiscences of the same beloved Cam- bridge suggest deeper ...
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... tion . There are persons who , after years of abstinence from athletic sports or the pursuits of the naturalist or artist , have resumed them , simply in order to restore to the woods and the sunsets the zest of the old fascina- tion ...
... tion . There are persons who , after years of abstinence from athletic sports or the pursuits of the naturalist or artist , have resumed them , simply in order to restore to the woods and the sunsets the zest of the old fascina- tion ...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson. tested by an alarm which appealed solely to the imagina- tion . The only one among them who stood the test was the most cowardly of the group , who escaped the conta- gion through sheer lack of this faculty ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. tested by an alarm which appealed solely to the imagina- tion . The only one among them who stood the test was the most cowardly of the group , who escaped the conta- gion through sheer lack of this faculty ...
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Strana 111 - you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world." " I don't know how great men you may be," said the Guinea man, " but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Strana 179 - Only thus much; by Hercules, I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to the use of man.
Strana 255 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
Strana 109 - ... something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost.
Strana 109 - For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket...
Strana 109 - If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch, and the same blow shall send the white to his grave.
Strana 65 - Original," as he was deservedly called, who maintained that, by a correct diet, the system became self-purifying, through an active exhalation which repelled impurity, — so that, while walking on dusty roads, his feet, and even his stockings, remained free from dust ? " By way of experiment, I did not wash my face for a week ; nor did any one see, nor I feel, the difference." My deluded friend, it is a fatal error. Mr. Walker, the Original, may have been inwardly a saint and a sage, but it is impossible...
Strana 128 - This is to give notice to all my Honourd Masters and Ladies and the' rest and of my loving Friends that my Lady Butterfield gives a challenge to ride a horse to leap a horse or run on foot or...
Strana 256 - Their existence blooms again in these violet-petals, glitters in the burnished beauty of these golden beetles, or enriches the veery's song. It is only out of doors that even death and decay become beautiful. The model farm, the most luxurious house, have their regions of unsightliness ; but the fine chemistry of nature is constantly clearing away all its impurities before our eyes, and yet so delicately that we never suspect the process. The most exquisite work of literary art exhibits a certain...
Strana 297 - I think that, if required, on pain of death, to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg.