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Culture, Rhetoric And The Vicissitudes Of Life
All rhetoric is palaestral. The metaphor of the wrestling-school is a vehicle for the
rhetorical struggle to pin down another person and make him or her accept a
definition of the situation. This essay examines the tactics used to do that and the
...
2
The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things
PALAESTRAL (puh- LES-truhl): adj. from Latin palaestra (place for wrestling),
from Greek palaistra, from palaiein (to wrestle): pertaining to wrestling. palaestral
Because of Alan's palaestral background, he was able to get the robber in an ...
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The North American Review
The out-of-door life of the Greeks, conducing at once to health and an
unconscious education of the eye, and the perfection of physical development
resulting from their palaestral exercises and constantly displayed in them, made
the Greeks ...
Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, 1849
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar ...
In the " Cornish hug,” Mr. Polwhele perceived the Greek palaestral attitudes nely
revived; two Cornishmen in the act of wrestling, bear a close resemblance to the
figures on old gems and coins. -9 The athletic exercise ofwrestling thrives in the ...
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The Light Blue: A Cambridge University Magazine
Around the champaign mantles bright The fulness of purpureal light; Another sun
and stars they know, That shine like ours but shine below. There some disport
their manly frames In wrestling and palaestral games, Strive on the grassy sward,
...
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The Aeneid of Virgil: Translated into English verse. By John ...
There some disport their manly frames In wrestling and palaestral games, Strive
on the grassy sward, or stand Contending on the yellow sand : Some ply the
dance with eager feet And chant responsive to its beat. The priest of Thrace in
loose ...
Publius Vergilius Maro, 1867
Of Youth's toils and sports recurs the varied round ; The keen palaestral conflict
— or of school — or cricket-ground ; The loved preceptor's favouring nod ; the
game's tumultuous cheer ; The well-conned calendar, which told — the holidays
...
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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic
Among other palaestral sports, running, boxing and wrestling are mentioned but
their practice was not restricted to the open-air courtyard; many of the larger
baths (especially of the Imperial period) had special halls (basilica thermarum;
see ...
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The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness ...
E. C. Lefroy, 'Muscular Christianity', Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates'
Journal, 31 May 1877, p. 451. 67. Quoted in W. A. Gill, Edward Cracroft Lefroy.
His Life and Poems, 1897, p. 51; 'A Palaestral Study', p. 110; 'Bill: a Portrait', p.
112.
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The Non-Fiction of Henry James (Annotated with Biography):
I notemy palaestral hour, therefore, but becauseitfell throughwhat it
seemedtoshow me,straight into whatI had conceivedofthe Philadelphia scheme,
the happy familygiven up,though quiteon "family" lines, toallthe immediate
beguilements and ...
