The English At Home Essays From the Revu Des Deux Mondes
The English At Home Essays From the Revu Des Deux Mondes
Alphonse Esquiros
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No, his course of instruction consists in talking slang fluently, brandishing dumb-bells, running a mile in five minutes, and above all, in enduring blows and buffets without giving the slightest sign of pain. It is his duty to understand that human flesh was made to be hammered with the PUGILISTIC TRAINING. 139 fist. One of the principles of the science is that the pupil must always display goodhumour j even if he were to die under punishment, he must do it with a smiling face. This smile is, ...I confess, somewhat forced at times, and bears considerable resemblance to a grimace ; but what matter ? the intention is there. As the apprentice advances in age, he forms a contrast to other youths through his vigour. His hair cut short, and as hard as a brush, his nose flattened and polished on the sur- face by the rude caresses of the boxing-glove, his strongly developed bones and muscles, his pro- tuberant jaws, all announce what he will be some day. The novice is, however, still somewhat on the same footing as the workman who, impelled by a sudden call, abandons the trowel or the hammer for the boxing-gloves; still with equal strength, he possesses an undeniable advantage over them.
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