A Treatise on GymnasticksS. Butler, 1828 - 179 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
الصفحة ii - CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the eleventh day of November, AD 1830, in the fiftyfifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof...
الصفحة iv - Beck, in his preface, alludes to the advantages to be " derived by a republic from gymnastick exercises, uniting in one occupation all the different classes of the people, and thus forming a new tie for those who, for the most part, are widely . separated by their different education and pursuits of life.
الصفحة 44 - Kal 1rlraXov. one to the other and with the ends folded back from the left to the right and from the right to the left, and covering the bareness of his neck.
الصفحة iv - Mass- was the first institution in this country, that introduced gytnnastick exercises as a part of the regular instruction, in the spring of 1825. Since that time, the interest for this branch of education has been rapidly increasing, and frequent inquiries have been made respecting a subject much esteemed for its expected salutary effects, but little known as to its particulars.
الصفحة 3 - Body erect, belly inwards, breast outwards. Particular care must be taken to maintain the posture of the upper part of the body. In this way alone the back can be drawn in, the shoulders recede, and a firm and noble posture of the body be effected. Hands flat upon the hips, the thumb backwards, the fingers forward. Keeping the hands so prevents an unsteady wavering motion of the body. Lips close.
الصفحة 6 - Stretching, when the body, from head to heels, forms a straight line. The different exercises of this kind consist either in preserving that position, or in moving in it, wherein the hands either assist, or rest close to the body. All of them are extremely strengthening to the joints of the back.
الصفحة iv - Northampton. On page iv of the preface Dr. Beck states that " The school of Messrs. Cogswell & Bancroft, in Northampton, Mass., was the first institution in this country that introduced gymnastick exercises as a part of the regular instruction, in the spring of 1825.
الصفحة iv - I did not doubt to which of the two ways proposed to give the preference. I fixed upon the treatise of John, from reasons contained in the preceding lines.
الصفحة 5 - This motion exercises the flexibility of the knees still more than hopping with bending the knees. (IIl, b.). running must be slow, but the start from the ground high and in quick succession. b. In apparent running. The preceding exercise, except that the gymnick remains on the spot.