Author: Carl Betz

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-21

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780282821081

Excerpt from A System of Physical Culture, Vol. 4: Popular Gymnastics, Athletics and Sports of the Play-Ground Play, like work, has its responsibilities; and the English youth who desires hereafter to live like an Englishman, a gentleman, will learn to practice in his boyish games the manly virtues, self reliance, self-respect, courtesy towards his comrades, truthfulness and generosity. The boy who is a bully, will, as a man, he a coward. The boy who sneaks and cringes, and lies, and nour ishes the mean vices of envy and false-speaking, will also lie and cringe and slander when a man, until he Sinks beneath the scorn and just indignation of every honest heart. 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.