The Brawnville Papers
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Excerpt from The Brawnville Papers: Being Memorials of the Brawnville Athletic Club "For Athletique, I take the subject of it largely, for any point of ability whereunto the body of man may be brought, whether it be of activity or of patience; whereof activity hath two parts, strength and swiftness; and patience likewise hath two parts, hardness against wants and extremities, and endurance of torments. Of these things the practices are known, but the philosophy that concerneth them is not much inquired into." - Lord Bacon. "A short life is not given us, but we ourselves make it so." - Seneca. "We are weak, because it never enters into our thoughts that we might be strong if we would." - Salzmaun. "The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor spirited, and can not serve any one: it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends and has to spare, runs over and inundates the neighborhood and creeks of other men´s necessities." - Emerson. "O Blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; ´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 be wretched as to want thee - wants every thing with thee." - Sterne. "Don´t let reformers of any sort think that they are going really to lay hold of the working boys and young men of England by any educational grapnel whatever, which hasn´t some bona fide equivalent for the games of the old country veast in it; something to put in 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. - Thomas Hughes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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