Nor ought we to pass over this early manifestation in Attica of an opinion equitable and tolerant toward sedentary industry, which in most other parts of Greece was regarded as comparatively dishonorable.
The school-room ought to be surrounded by a large piece of ground, in which the children might be usefully exercised, for at this age they should not be confined to any sedentary employment for more than an hour at a time.
Chinese bands, and the sedentary life which they are condemned to live, whilst boys frolic in the open air, weakens the muscles and relaxes the nerves.
I confess I can discover none, except in the sedentary posture, before touched upon, which from long experience has been found by these artists to be the one most convenient for the exercise of their vocation.
He is soiled, ignorant and sedentary in his habits.
It may do for a man engaged solely in sedentary pursuits, but it is not sufficient in cases of great muscular exhaustion.
Sedentary habits and stale beer are apt to make us morbid.
We should not be Puritanical, but we might safely draw the line at the bow-legged and sedentary goddess of leprosy.
How a sedentary man could fall through a child's carriage in such a manner as to stab himself with the awning and knock every spoke out of three wheels, is still a mystery to me, but I did it.
I am sedentary in my nature, slow to move about, so that it takes a lady of great strength of purpose to pull me around on time.
He fired several sedentary deputies who had been in the place twenty years just because they were good "workers.
Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men?
The outdoor air and exercise which the walker gets give a different tone to his palate, and he craves a fruit which the sedentary would call harsh and crabbed.
It results that, except in the broken hill country, these peoples habitually make use of movable habitations, live in camps rather than in settled, sedentary communities.
With tillage necessarily goes a sedentary manner of life.
Professions can rarely be said to favor beauty; but they do not impede its development when their exercise does not compel to laborious employments an organization suited only to sedentary occupations.
It is seldom natural, but commonly depends on a sedentary and inactive life, on a diseased condition of the brain produced by reading works of imagination, and on habits of sensual indulgence.
Sedentary life, by enfeebling muscular movement and by inducing indigestion and constipation, brings on diarrhoea.
Wealth, with ease and inactivity, and sedentary occupations, contribute to the same end by lessening the need of food, and thus debilitating the organs of digestion by inaction.
It is more likely to occur in men and women whose habits are sedentary and who are constitutionally lazy and indolent.
The insufficient supply of oxygen {1047} which is a necessary result of a sedentary life leads thus, directly, to the accumulation of fat in the liver-cells.
Persons addicted to the pleasures of the table are apt to pursue sedentary lives, and hence, besides the inappropriation of the material digested, the process of oxidation is insufficient to burn off the surplus.
For the same reason a sedentary mode of life loses force as an argument in its production.
As {974} a rule, these subjects are but little disposed to physical exercise and lead rather sedentary lives.
Sedentary habits have the same mechanical effect, but, as already pointed out, insufficient air and exercise act by lessening oxidation.
I am satisfied that the common use of tobacco is injurious to most people, especially those of sedentary habits.
That men accustomed to hard labor will endure more fatigue, than those of sedentary or enervated habits, needs no argument to prove.
Those who follow a sedentary and inactive occupation do not tire by much sitting, while children or others used to freedom and action may find it a wearisome task merely to remain still for an hour or two.
The boy who does not hunt and fish and race and climb at the proper time for these things, will find his taste for them fade away, and he will become wedded to a sedentary life.
He was certainly handsome, as far as the form of his features and brow; and would have been very handsome, but for the bad complexion which at his age so often accompanies a sedentary life, and a melancholic temper.
The most cowardly and sedentary people on the face of the globe may become invincible warriors if they have the money.
They seemed to him very populous, and he felt the surprise that great modern improvements must cause to those used to a retired and sedentary life.
The financial crash that forced me to leave school when I did, kept me for years in a state of sedentary drudgery for a pittance.
In those states, however, there is no such solid mass of sedentary agricultural Indians as dwell on the plateaux and inter-Andean valleys of Peru and Bolivia.
Both in Mexico, in parts of Central America, and in Peru there was a large sedentary population of aborigines, cultivating the soil and trained to industry during many generations.
The sedentary Berbers are nomadic in certain conditions, and from the earliest times the invading nomad Berbers tended to become sedentarywhen they reached the rich plains north of the Atlas.
Augustin Bernard has pointed out that, in North Africa, the sedentary and nomadic habit do not imply a permanent difference, but rather a temporary one of situation and opportunity.
Half of the neighborhood had fled; the others were staying by their firesides through sedentary routine, or deceiving themselves with a blind optimism.
It was a laborious existence, sedentaryand remunerative.
They are, on all grounds, to be preferred to prolongedsedentary occupations.
It is to a Neglect in this Particular that we must ascribe the Spleen, which is so frequent in Men of studious andsedentary Tempers, as well as the Vapours to which those of the other Sex are so often subject.
The Soul, considered abstractedly from its Passions, is of a remiss andsedentary Nature, slow in its Resolves, and languishing in its Executions.
Costiveness or biliousness from sedentary habits and lack of exercise in the outer air and sunshine, exposure to intense heat or cold and over-exertion, are all to be guarded against.
Such workmen, as well as all who are engaged in sedentary pursuits, require exercise in the open air--exercise which will bring into play the unused muscles and will break the train of thought of the professional man.
If the organism demands but little of this fat for oxidation, as in the case of the sedentary person, an accumulation is likely to occur.
Among professional men and those who live sedentary lives the mistake is not uncommon of paying too much attention to the sensations after a meal, and deciding therefrom whether certain articles of food are unhealthy or not.
Corroborative proof of the sedentary character of our Indian tribes is to be found in the curious form of kinship system, with mother-right as its chief factor, which prevails.
Upon the Pacific coast proper the tribes were even more sedentary than upon the Atlantic, as the mild climate and the great abundance and permanent supply of fish and shellfish left no cause for a seasonal change of abode.
The Eskimauan family is represented in northeast Asia by the Yuit of the Chukchi peninsula, who are to be distinguished from the sedentary Chukchi or the Tuski of authors, the latter being of Asiatic origin.
There are two classes of weavers, the sedentaryand the nomadic.
The manner of life of the sedentary weaver works havoc with her constitution even in her youth; and consequently one is not surprised at her frail appearance.
The body ill brooks being kept in one posture for any length of time; and during sedentary occupation some of the muscles are maintained in a state of extension, whilst others are as unduly kept in a state of relaxation.
Your sedentary life as a dressmaker does not agree with you.
Those who lead excessively sedentary lives are prone to be turbulent and extreme in both passion and opinion, as witness the oft-adduced revolutionary disposition of cobblers.
Sedentary life in schools and offices, as we have seen, is reducing the vigor and size of our lower limbs.
Locomotion overcomes the tendency to sedentary habits in modern schools and life, and helps the mind to helpful action, so that a peripatetic philosophy is more normal than that of the easy chair and the study lamp.
He leaves his retreat before sunrise to feed on the insects over the water; he returns to it as soon as the sun's rays cause a glare of light, is sedentary all day long, and comes out again for a short time after sunset.
It seems an indolent, sedentary bird, shunning the society of all others in the forest.
The traveller is quite a different being from the sedentary man, because he is active, and constantly excited by a variety of objects.
At length growing tired of a sedentary life, he accompanied his kinsman, a master of a vessel, to Genoa.
