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The training days of colony times developed into Muster Days, the crowning pinnacle of gayety, dissipation, and noise in a country boy's life in New England for over a century. We owe much to these trainings and these trials of marksmanship.
It is significant of the tolerance and breadth of vision of his parents that they apparently put no bars in the path of this ambition, though they had sacrificed to give him the best of collegiate trainings that he might fit himself for the ministry, medicine, or the law.
They would, at any rate, be far more valuable than many small manoeuvres, which can frequently be replaced by exercises on the large drill-grounds, than many expensive trainings in the country, which are of no real utility, or than many other military institutions which are only remotely connected with the object of training under active service conditions.
For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger.
I was trained to tell the truth, and to insist that the truth be told to me; I find here, in the East, that the truth is the very last thing to be uttered; that it is avoided as long as it possibly can be. In this way, Miss Langdon, our trainings differ. Naturally, then, I am not like the men of your knowledge." "I beg your pardon, Mr. Morton, I didn't mean to give offense by what I said."
"As to the other, it is early to give an opinion." "She has had the best of trainings ," he murmured. And Lady Cantourne turned on him with a twinkle amidst the wrinkles. "For which?" she asked. "Choisissez!" he answered, with a bow. One sees a veteran swordsman take up the foil with a tentative turn of the wrist, lunging at thin air.
Wetherell told me stories of all the people, as Darby shuffled by their houses, raising a big cloud of dust. When we came to a sandy stretch of road, Mr. Wetherell said: "This is what we call the Plains. Here is where we used to have May trainings, years and years ago. Once they had a sham-fight, and I thought I should have died a-laughing. I was nothing but a boy.
At any rate, then we can go into the same Militia regiment, and that will give us two trainings, besides preliminary drills, and so forth, to have some fun together. And Forsyth must come in too." "I have not quite made up my mind to go into the army, or rather to try for it, at all yet," said Forsyth. "It seems such a waste of time to sap for it, and then be sold after all.
This would be far more valuable for war than the many and often excessive trainings in driving, etc., on which so much time is wasted. The technical driver's duty is very simple in all columns and trains, but it is not easy to know in each position what is the crucial point, in order to be able, when occasion arises, to act independently.
And not ten among the five hundred let their minds be ever so good and bright will be competent, by grace of the requisite specialized mental training, to take hold of a complex abstraction of any kind and make head or tail of it. The whole five hundred are thinkers, and they are all capable thinkers but only within the narrow limits of their specialized trainings.
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