 He has never been an idler. Always a sport makes its highest appeal to him as a means to an end. He feels that to neglect his body would be like neglecting his morals or his mind. He seeks to keep his muscles hard, his nerves steady, his will strong....  Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter - Page 255by Theodore Roosevelt - 1905 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...his muscles hard, his nerves steady, his will strong. "It is an excellent thing," so runs his creed, "for any man to be a good horseman and a good marksman,...bold and hardy, and wonted to feats of strength, and to endure, to be able to live in the open, and to feel a self-reliant readiness in any crisis." To... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...an excellent thing," so runs his creed, "for any man to be a good horseman and a good marks298 man, to be bold and hardy, and wonted to feats of strength, and to endure, to be able to live in the open, and to feel a self-reliant readiness in any crisis." To... | |
 | Fisheries - 1914 - 570 pages
...weapons, which are fostered by a hunter's life. No training in the barracks or on the parade ground is as good as the training given by a hard hunting...man to be a good horseman and a good marksman, to be able to live in the open and to feel a self-reliant readiness in any crisis. Big game hunting tends... | |
 | 1902 - 1482 pages
...standpoint of national character" as a corrective of" the tendency to softening of the fiber." He adds : " It is an excellent thing for any man to be a good horseman and a good marksman, to be able to live in the open, and to fee! a self-reliant readiness in any crisis." There are many pictures.... | |
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