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For the Arctic Circle we now possess maps that only show blanks over a few thousand square miles. This knowledge has been gained by slow degrees, and by the exercise of the most heroic courage and endurance.
Finally, by originally vesting all men with dominion or ownership over property, God proclaimed the right of all to exercise it, and pronounced every man who takes it away a robber of the highest grade.
All this will not only sharpen the wits but also strengthen human sympathy for it enables us the better to know the difficulties and sorrows of others. If such practices are followed faithfully day by day the growth will be steady. Still another useful practice is to exercise the imagination, the art of creating mental pictures with no physical object present.
Eventually the prison authorities relented and we were permitted to purchase our mid-day meal from a restaurant, for which privilege by the way we were mulcted very heavily. During the day we were permitted to stretch our limbs in the exercise yard for about fifteen minutes. No steel-bound rules and regulations such as I had experienced at Wesel prevailed here.
Being now their guardian, he might command as much, but it needed not any exercise of authority on his part to induce all three of them to obey his summons. They had travelled through the mighty forests of the Mississippi, and upon the summer prairies of the South. These great features of the earth's surface were to them familiar things, and they were no longer curious about them.
He almost wished he was dead as he walked down to the House in the hope that the exercise might remedy, or improve, his languid circulation; but in vain, and when his name was called and he had to rise, his hands and feet were like ice. Lady Roehampton and Lady Montfort were both in the ventilator, and he knew it. It might be said that he was sustained by his utter despair.
I am sure if I were to be weighed I should find I had lost nearly a stone since I came out." "You have quite enough flesh on you," Skinner said critically. "If you have lost a stone you must have been getting beastly fat. You fellows in the Guards do not take enough exercise. The time was when the Guards used to row and had a very good eight, but they never do that sort of thing now.
Your account of your health is very suspicious; you are not particular enough; you say nothing of the means you use to restore yourself; whether you take exercise, or how you employ your time. I shall probably leave this on Sunday next; my horse will not take me home in three days.
He has drawn the portrait of the late General, in a manner that discovers great facility of execution; but he is not allowed to exercise his pencil on any other subject, lest he should be amused; and amusement in this severe order is a crime.
Nor is spinning on a high wheel which requires not only walking to and fro, but also considerable motion of the arms and chest a very bad exercise. A great deal may also be done by reading aloud in a proper manner, and by conversation; and especially by singing.
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