Of what importance is it in after-life whether a boy can play well or ill at cricket, or row a boat with the skill and precision of a waterman? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to... The Classical Journal - Page 1941813Full view - About this book
| 1810 - 538 pages
...waterman? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to exhibit Olympic games in Hilary Term, the glory attached Inched to these exercises at public schools would be rational and important. But of what use is the... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...the bar to. exhibit Olympick games in Hilary term, the glory attached to these exercises of publick schools would be rational and important. But of what...an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads, or when a pistol, a postchaise, or a porter, can be hired fora few shillings ? A gentleman does nothing... | |
| 1812 - 470 pages
...the bar to exhibit Olympick games in Hilary term, the glory attached to these exercises of publick schools would be rational and important. But of what...an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads, or when a pistol, a postchaise, or a porter, can be hired fora few shillings ? A gentleman does nothing... | |
| William Vincent - Education - 1817 - 236 pages
...were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen at the bar to exhibit Qlijffipie gams* in Hilary Term, the glory attached to these exercises...rational and important. But of what use is the body ef an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads ?" — Reader, have you passed through any school... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to exhibit Olympic games in Hilary Term, the...an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads, — or when a pistol, a postchaise, or a porter, can be hired for a few shillings ? A gentleman does... | |
| Sydney Smith - English literature - 1845 - 530 pages
...waterman? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to exhibit Olympic games in Hilary Term, the...attached to these exercises at public schools would lie rational and important. But of what use is the body of an athlete, when AVC have good laws over... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...waterman? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to exhibit Olympic games in Hilary Term, the...an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads — or when a pistol, a postchaise, or a porter can be hired for a few shillings ? A gentleman does... | |
| Sydney Smith - Essays - 1850 - 736 pages
...? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to exhibit Olympic games in Hilary Term, the...body of an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads,—or when a pistol, a postehaise, or a porter can be hired for a few shillings ? A gentleman... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...naturally enough would) the advantages of the athletic sports practised at public schools when he said, — "But of what use is the body of an athlete, when we have good laws over our heads, — or when a pistol, a pout-chaise, or a porter can be hired for a few shillings ?" The ancients were... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...waterman? If our young lords and esquires were hereafter to wrestle together in public, or the gentlemen of the Bar to exhibit Olympic games in Hilary Term, the...athlete, when we have good laws over our heads,— or when a pistol, a postchaise, or a porter, can be hired for a few shillings ? A "entleman does nothing... | |
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