The Brawnville Papers: Being Memorials of the Brawnville Athletic Club

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Moses Coit Tyler
Fields, Osgood, 1869 - 215 halaman
 

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Halaman 182 - For bodily exercise profiteth little : but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Halaman 71 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Halaman 130 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health and spirits go amiss? " How tasteless then whatever can be given! " Health is the vital principle of bliss,
Halaman 189 - Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. So, when my precious aunt was done, My grandsire brought her back (By daylight, lest some rabid youth Might follow on the track) ; 'Ah...
Halaman 5 - ... tis thou who enlargest the soul, — and openest all its powers to receive instruction and to relish virtue. — He that has thee, has little more to wish for; — and he that is so wretched as to want thee,—wants every thing with thee.
Halaman 71 - The first physicians by debauch were made ; Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade. By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food ; 5 Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood ; But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
Halaman 203 - THIS night is my departing night, For here nae langer must I stay ; There's neither friend nor foe o' mine, But wishes me away. What I have done thro...
Halaman 5 - ... in it ; something to put in the place of the back-swording and wrestling and racing ; something to try the muscles of men's bodies, and the endurance of their hearts, and to make them rejoice in their strength. In all the new-fangled comprehensive plans which I see, this is all left out ; and the consequence is, that your great mechanics' institutes end in intellectual priggism, and your Christian young men's societies in religious Pharisaism.
Halaman 69 - Tales of a king who had long languished under an ill habit of body, and had taken abundance of remedies to no purpose. At length, says the fable, a physician cured him by the following method : He took...
Halaman 5 - The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one: it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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