 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1894 - 672 pages
...weapon, to guard and to strike safely with the edge or point; this will keep them healthy, iiimble, aud strong, and well in breath, is also the likeliest...large and tall, and to inspire them with a gallant aud fearless courage, which being tempered with seasonable lectures and precepts to them of true fortitude... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...thrusting. Milton does not mention the " backsword " in his tract " On Education," but clearly implies it. " The exercise which I commend first, is the exact use...weapon, to guard and to strike safely with edge or point " (Bohn, iii. 475). 1. 28, never to have been bright. The authority for this has escaped me. 1. 31,... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - Christianity - 1894 - 548 pages
...strike safely with edge or point," so to be kept " healthy, nimble, strong, and well in breath, as the likeliest means to make them grow large and tall,...inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage." In the Puritan's scheme there is no mention of any of the fine arts but one. Their times of rest between... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1894 - 676 pages
...noon should Vie allowed lor exercise and due rest afterwards. * ' The exercise which I c-oninieiid first is the exact use of their weapon, to guard and to strike "safely with the edge or point; this will keep them healthy, uimhle, and strong, and well in breath, is aleo the... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1895 - 104 pages
...according as their rising in the morning shall be early. The exercise which I commend first is the 10 exact use of their weapon, to guard and to strike...means to make them grow large and tall, and to inspire 15 them with a gallant and fearless courage, which being tempered- with seasonable lectures and precepts... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - Education - 1895 - 278 pages
...time for this may be enlarged at pleasure, according as their rising in the morning shall be early. " The exercise which I commend first, is the exact use of their weapon; . . . this will keep them healthy, nimble, strong and well in breath. . . . They must be also practised... | |
 | Thiselton Mark - Education - 1899 - 164 pages
...the first place to fencing. " This will keep them healthy, nimble, strong, and well in breath, and is also the likeliest means to make them grow large...inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage." Wrestling is next on Milton's list, into the spirit of which he enters with some zest. It is not a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...had one sharp edge : it was a fencing-stick ; the rapier was a duelling sword. 58. 17. he recommends. "The exercise which I commend first is the exact use of their weapon " (Milton's Prose Works, pub. Bohn, iii. 475). The place of swordsmanship in education is the theme... | |
 | Health - 1905 - 400 pages
...afterwards ; but the time for this may be enlarged at pleasure. . . . The exercise which I commend first, is exact use of their weapon, to guard and to strike...inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage. . . . They must be also practised in all the locks and gripes of wrestling, wherein Englishmen were... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 280 pages
...should be fencing and wrestling " to keep them healthy, nimble and strong and well in breath." "It is also the likeliest means to make them grow large...inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage"; which he adds " being tempered with seasonable lectures and precepts to them of true Fortitude and Patience... | |
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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... 
