Gymnastics for Youth: Or A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises for the Use of Schools. An Essay Toward the Necessary Improvement of Education, Chiefly as it Relates to the BodyJ. Johnson, 1800 - 433 Seiten |
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Seite i - GYMNASTICS / FOR / YOUTH: / OR A / PRACTICAL GUIDE / TO / HEALTHFUL AND AMUSING EXERCISES / FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. / AN ESSAY TOWARD THE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENT / OF / EDUCATION, / CHIEFLY AS IT RELATES TO THE BODY...
Seite 131 - ... continual exercise ; make him robust and sound in order to make him wise and reasonable : let him work, and move about, and run, and shout, and be continually in motion ; let him be a man in vigor, and soon he will be such by force of reason. . . . It is a very deplorable error to imagine that the exercise of the body is injurious to the operations of the mind ; as if these two activities were not to proceed in concert, and the second were not always to direct the first...
Seite 353 - ... men can swim, as well as all beasts : nothing more is requisite, than to have the courage to put yourself into a proper position, and make the same motions with your hands and feet as you see the frogs. But this courage you will not have, till you have found by experience, that you can keep yourself afloat in this manner. To make this experiment, walk into the water, where it deepens gradually, till you are up to your middle, and turn about your face to the shore. In this situation, you will...
Seite vii - Jl sound mind in a strong and healthy body, has been for ages the grand object of education. How is it, then, that we commonly forget the improvement of the body, though we are fully convinced that neither wealth nor title, neither learning nor worth, can protect the feeble, the unhealthy and the infirm, from the lamentable effects of their condition ? Should you have nothing to bequeath your child, should you bestow on his mind but a narrow education, still he will bless you if you form his body...
Seite 285 - ... pupils, the master leads them to a clump of trees, and, while he is counting fifteen, every one must climb up some tree, so high, as to be out of the reach of his cane ; all exert themselves, with much laughter, to escape the stick, as if some wild beast were at their heels ; if any one be defective in agility, he will be reached, and receive the penance of a few playful strokes.
Seite 232 - Nothing, indeed, is more conducive to bodily health, than long walks in winter, when the air is pure and bracing, and the cold excites quickness of motion. Nor has any of the seasons a more beneficial influence on our health than winter. But this we counteract, by continually indulging in the heated air of our parlours, which lays a foundation for the diseases of the spring', which we then erroneously ascribe to that season...
Seite 89 - Sal/mann is not in the title page of the original of this work, though there is no doubt of it's being written by him : for his name was fubjoined to the advertifements in which it was announced...
Seite 12 - ... his seventh year, the roses will have vanished from his cheeks. His meat, his drink, his confined way of life, will have faded them: or if he enter the period of youth with health unimpaired, his body will seldom be what it ought at the termination of this period; it will have completed its growth, but it will not be full of energy; nature has done every thing on her part; he nothing : and what have the parents done ? "People of rank regard nothing but gracefulness and demeanor and health. No...
Seite 147 - giving the substance of the seven first paragraphs of Hoffman's work" (De Motu Corp. Opt. Med. — Bodily Exercise the best Medicine) : — " The support of the body requires not nourishment alone, but the separation of what cannot be converted into blood ; and what is daily thrown off from the blood is of this kind. This, according to Sanctorius, amounts to more than is discharged by all the other emunctories. Perspiration, then, is the principal way in which this can be effected. Consequently,...
Seite 13 - ... the body ; between elegance of carriage and muscular strength, between the timid spirit of the young beau and the manly mind of the rising youth. I love dancing : yet I am compelled to...