| Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 páginas
...wonderfully soft, sweet, and gay they are, while the author's own unsullied life lends them additional charm. When the baths are ready, which in winter is about...in summer about two, he undresses himself and, if their happen to be no wind, walks for some time in the sun. After this he has a good brisk game of... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1909 - 532 páginas
...wonderfully soft, sweet, and gay they are, while the author's own unsullied life lends them additional charm. When the baths are ready, which in winter is about...in summer about two, he undresses himself and, if their happen to be no wind, walks for some time in the sun. /After this he has a good brisk game of... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1910 - 338 páginas
...spirit and gaiety runs through his verses, which the merit of the author renders still mofe. valuable. 'When the baths are ready, which in winter is about...himself; and if there happens to be no wind, he walks for some time in the sun. After this he plays for a considerable time at tennis ; for by this sort... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1915 - 562 páginas
...gaiety runs through his verses, which the moral virtue of the author renders still more acceptable. When the baths are ready, which in winter is about...into prolonged and violent motion at playing ball : for by this sort of exercise, too, he combats the effects of old age. When he has bathed, he throws... | |
| Edwin Emery Slosson - 1924 - 322 páginas
...of sores and the maintenance of health. Pliny, in writing about how his aged friend, Spurinna, kept his youthful vigor, says: When the baths are ready,...motion at playing ball; and by this sort of exercise h<5 combats the effect of old age. But we northern races, having to wear thick clothing and stay in... | |
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