"Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable of any that they engage in."Ib., p. 136.

Their exercises are a kind of ball-playing, hunting, and running; and they are very fond of dancing.

So, in the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle concludes that a life devoted to philosophy is the happiest; or, as he says in the Politics, the free exercise of any power, whatever it may be, is happiness.

But during the past five weeks, my out-door exercise has been nil: the roads were too wet and rough.

These exercises, unlike examination questions or 'quizzes,' are not tests of memory, but are intended to train the student to work for himself; they are thus to be done under the freest conditionsat home, with full leisure, and all possible access to books, notes or help from other persons.

The exercises were simple,declamations, reading of selected compositions, examinations of the principal classes.

Thus, while exercise is a duty, rest is equally imperative.

He (Sir Lionel) doubted not the right of the planters to rent their houses and grounds; in order to be more certain on that head, he had procured the opinion of the Attorney General; but the exercise of the right by the planter, and getting the people to work, were very different matters.

If ever it is my destiny to become great and worthy of a biographical memoir, my biographer will never be able to charge upon my parents that bigoted attachment to any individual profession, the exercise of which spirit by parents toward their children has been the ruin of some of the greatest geniuses; and the biography of men of genius has too often contained that reflection on their parents.

The band at Lake Calhoun were going on a hunt for porcupines; a long hunt, and Harpstenah tried to deter her husband from attempting the journey; but he thought the animating exercise of the chase would be a restorative to his feeble frame, and they set out with the rest.

A Christian behaviour and deportment under the sense of fruitlessness, expressing an holy submission of soul unto God, as sovereign, much humility of mind before him, justifying of God, and taking guilt to themselves, with a firm resolution, to wait on patiently in the use of means appointed, cannot but be edifying to Christian souls; such exercises being really the works and fruit of the spirit of grace working within.

The events of the night had so roused her soul within her, that exercise unto exhaustion was her sole remaining hope of sleep.

This judicious exercise of discretion would be the means of retaining in this important branch of the service, a class of men who would become most valuable to their officers when engaged in the arduous and responsible duties of a survey.

The rightful exercise of this power is not a question which we shall any longer argue.

Even the exercise of charity is often a snare to us.

That would be consistent with the prerogative, and would be perfectly legal; but everybody must feel, and everybody must know, that such an exercise of the undoubted prerogative of the crown would be a flagrant violation of the principles of the constitution.

The notes which precede the exercises are only hints; for full discussions of the principles involved the student must consult larger works.

The most beneficial exercises ordinarily are the gentle ones, in which no strain is put upon the heart and the respiration.

If the young are ever to learn to ride, on a living horse, the exercises of the rocking-horse will, most certainly, be a sort of preparation for the purpose.

But I fancy every period of life has its pleasures, and as we advance in life the exercise of power and the possession of wealth must be great consolations to the majority; we bully our children and hoard our cash.'

The exercise of power had become to him a pleasure; he was prepared if his King required it to continue in office to the end of his days, and he never feared to hazard fame and popularity if he could thereby add to the prosperity of the State.

The very fairest exercise of it was a never-failing corrupter of the heart.

The first exercise, was an examination of a passage of scripture.

But though these exercises in history were never a compulsory lesson, there was another kind of composition which was so, namely, writing verses, and it was one of the most disagreeable of my tasks.

He forgets that the grandest exercise of justice is mercy.