Physical Education in the Public Schools: An Eclectic System of Exercises, Including the Delsartean Principles of Execution and Expression

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American book Company, 1892 - 192 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 152 - ... over syllable; nor, as it were, melted together into a mass of confusion : they should not be trailed, or drawled, nor permitted to slip out carelessly, so as to drop unfinished. They should be delivered from the lips as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, neatly struck by the proper organs, distinct, in due succession, and of due weight."* Without good articulation, it is impossible to be & correct reader, or speaker.
Pàgina 48 - Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
Pàgina 7 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Pàgina 157 - STAY, lady, stay, for mercy's sake, And hear a helpless orphan's tale ; Ah ! sure my looks must pity wake ; 'Tis want that makes my cheek so pale. Yet I was once a mother's pride, And my brave father's hope and joy ; But in the Nile's proud fight he died, And I am now an orphan boy.
Pàgina 95 - ... completion, declaration, or response. A sudden stop in gesture expresses doubt, meditation or listening ; a sudden movement, decision or discovery. A broad and sweeping range of gesture illustrates a general statement, or expresses boldness, freedom, and self-possession ; a limited range denotes diffidence or constraint or illustrates a subordinate point. Rigidity of...
Pàgina 153 - ... understand himself. Lead him to comprehend the meaning, then the thought, and his feelings will prompt the right expression, and his tones and manner will carry the living picture of the scenes and events described. " To this one standard make your just appeal, Here lies the golden secret,
Pàgina 148 - ... reaches them all. Powerful as are the forces of pulpit and press, the former does not attract all ears, and the latter is largely influenced by the saloon in finance and the saloon in politics. But to the school-house door come white and black, native and foreign-born; inside its walls are invested their formative years, and the laws of their being as set forth by science, must appeal to their self-love, an attribute upon which we may always confidently base our calculations! The German, who....
Pàgina 105 - Sheathe thy bright sword, and join our hands in peace ! Let mutual joys our mutual trust combine, And love, and love-born confidence, be thine.
Pàgina 143 - Brethren, the days of want and despondency ; and " all things whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.
Pàgina 33 - You are bound to be healthy and happy," Emerson would say; "do not have any hobgoblin of the sick sort, but live outof-doors, and in the sea-bath, and the sail-boat, and the saddle, and the wagon, and, best of all, in your shoes, so soon as they will obey you for a mile. When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole-leather has gone into the fiber of your body.

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