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The magisti'ates of the Greek Republic enc ' 

 fine arts as a check against the ferocity * 



.i^ymnastic and military exercise!^ might ha\ • g^ _ 



present day, we have more need of alarm K'v ^ g. 



should decline, and there should be " nothin> S « 



feminine and pnorvating effects of luxir -« _o 



manners." We iiavc not the Campus Martin- w"^ 



the Eomana Milrd;* ; and it is* to the sports o? ^"S 



-> congenial to om nature — that we are to loc "*^ *- 



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 to the evil alluded to, and for the pres. .^ ^> 



character which has ever been the distingi.. ® S ^• 



I'juglish gentleman, It has even been asserted, tli c S^ 



we indebted for preserving the human race § f^'w 



this, however, we are certain, that the spori> H S .c 



leal courage ; for what chance, says a popular sv. "o ^- 



ment composed of men who could only dance. - ^ 



have against one composed of men who coul<" j> 



Riding is an accomplishment which has br 



'Estimation from t-lie very earliest ages, aui: 



Olympic Games. It once formed part of the ■ 



we find Cicero, with the vanity generally . 



telling his son Marcus, that as, on account v- 



eyes of all the world would be upon him, 



having received the praise of p. 



lield recomnienoed this acconj 



Chatham to his nephew : and even a Ry 



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