A Guide to the History of Physical Education

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Lea & Febiger, 1923 - 361 Seiten
 

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Seite 79 - Essay towards the necessary improvement of education chiefly as it relates to the body. Freely translated from the German of CG Salzmann. Illustrated with ten elegant engravings. Price 250 cents. William Duane, successor to Benjamin Franklin Bache in Franklin Court, Market Street, Philadelphia.
Seite 60 - A SOUND mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two, has little more to wish for ; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for any thing else.
Seite 57 - The exercise which I commend first, is the exact use of their weapon, to guard, and to strike safely with edge or point; this will keep them healthy, nimble, strong, and well in breath, is also the likeliest means to make them grow large and tall, and to inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage...
Seite 55 - ... and, as Plato says, we are not to fashion one without the other, but make them draw together like two horses harnessed to a...
Seite 55 - It is not a soul, it is not a body, that we are training up; it is a man, and we ought not to divide him into two parts...
Seite 325 - Ordered, That the Ling or Swedish system of educational gymnastics be introduced into all the public schools of this city.
Seite 57 - Therefore, about an hour and a half ere they eat at noon should be allowed them for exercise, and due rest afterwards; but the time for this may be enlarged at pleasure, according as their rising in the morning shall be early.
Seite 57 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Seite 60 - Besides what is to be had from study and books, there are other accomplishments necessary for a gentleman to be got by exercise, and to which time is to be allowed, and for which masters must be had.
Seite 61 - The body must needs be vigorous in order to obey the soul; a good servant ought to be robust The weaker the body, the more it commands, the stronger it is, the better it obeys In order to learn to think we must exercise our bodies which are the instruments of our intelligence.

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