Physical Education: Or, The Nurture and Management of Children, Founded on the Study of Their Nature and ConstitutionOliver & Boyd, 1838 - 200페이지 |
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acquire action active alimentary canal animal attained become blood body bones brain breathing carbonic acid cause chest chiefly child childhood circulation cold confined consequence constitution crying cultivation danger debility diet digestion disease early effects enjoyment excite exer exertion existence farther feelings fluid growth heat hence highly human imperfect importance improve increased infant influence injury instinct irritation knowledge labour limbs lungs Manual Labour means ment mental milk mind moral mother mother's milk motion muscles muscular exercise muscular system nature necessary nervous nourishment nurse nutritive functions object observed operation organs oxygen pain parents particles performance period perspiration Physical Education physical exercise physical frame powerful instinct powers practice preserve produced proper pure air purpose reason rendered requires respiration scarcely scurvied SECT senses skin sleep sound spine stomach sufficient supply teething temperature thing tion tivation tural uncon vigour vital young youth
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171 페이지 - As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration : — feelings too Of unremembered pleasure : such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, H 3 His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
59 페이지 - A healthy child, of two or three years old, commonly awakes hungry and thirsty at tive or six o'clock in the morning, sometimes even earlier. Immediately after awaking, a little bread and sweet milk should be given to it, or (when the child is too young to eat bread) a little bread-pap. The latter should be warm ; but in the former case, the bread may be eaten from the hand, and the milk allowed to be drunk cold, as it is well at this meal to furnish no inducement for eating beyond that of hunger....
60 페이지 - ... next morning. Similar regimen and hours may be adopted throughout the whole period of childhood; only as the fourth or fifth year approaches, giving, for breakfast and supper, bread and milk without water, and either warm or cold, according to the weather or the child's inclination. The supply of food upon first awaking in the morning may also be gradually discontinued, and breakfast be given somewhat earlier.'— Op.
197 페이지 - Experience is the forerunner of precept; the moment he knows the features of his nurse, he may be said to have acquired considerable knowledge. Trace the progress of the most ignorant of mortals, from his birth to the present hour, and you will be astonished at the knowledge he has acquired. If we divide all human science into two parts, the one consisting of that which is common to all men, and the other of what is peculiar to the learned, the latter will appear insignificant and trifling in comparison...
60 페이지 - Between six and seven o'clock, the child may have its last meal of bread steeped in water, &c., as at nine o'clock in the morning. A healthy child who has been in the open air during the greater part of the day will be ready for bed shortly after this last-mentioned supply, and will require nothing further till morning.
178 페이지 - it was the fashion in Berlin and other parts of Germany, and also in Holland a few years ago, to apply corsets to children. This practice fell into disuse, in consequence of its being observed, that children who did not wear corsets grew up straight, while those who were treated with this extraordinary care, got by it a high shoulder or a hunch. Many families might be named, in which parental fondness selected the handsomest of several boys to put in corsets, and the result was, that these alone...
179 페이지 - ... thousands of boarding-schools in this country. " We lately visited, in a large town, a boarding-school containing forty girls; and we learnt, on close and accurate inquiry, that there was not one of the girls who had been at the school two years (and the majority had been as long), that was not more or less crooked!
179 페이지 - ... boarding-school of young ladies in their walk,) that all her companions were pallid, sallow and listless. We can assert, on the same authority of personal observation and on an extensive scale, that scarcely a single girl, (more especially of the middle classes,) that has been at a boarding school for two or three years, returns home with. unimpaired health; and for the truth of the assertion, we may appeal to every candid father whose daughters have been placed in this situation.
55 페이지 - It is well known that artizans and laborers, in the confined manufactories of large towns, suffer prodigiously in their health whenever a failure occurs in the crops of common fruits; this fact was remarkably striking in the years 1804 and 1805.
182 페이지 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An