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" As might, from the foregoing, be guessed, the well-worn phrase, mens sana in corpore sano, " a sound mind in a sound body, "
Latin Classics ... - Page 225
by William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900
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The King's Indian Allies: The Rajas and Their India

St. Nihal Singh - 1916 - 394 pages
...place was taken by his son, Guru Har Govind, then only eleven years old. He preached the gospel of mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body), and urged that spiritual welfare must go hand in hand with good health. The Sikhs, he declared, must...
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Minnesota Municipalities, Volumes 1-3

1916 - 706 pages
...interest in the health and the welfare, physically, of our children. You know the old Latin adage, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, and unless we have our children in perfect health, unless we do air that we can to prevent disease...
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The Science of Business: Being the Philosophy of Successful Human ..., Book 2

Arthur Frederick Sheldon - 1917 - 256 pages
...intoxicated, what kind of "thoughts" will a man have? Suppose he were sick or intoxicated all the time ! Mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body) is an old truth — true always. Since mind^ is rooted in sensation received through the body as an instrument,...
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The Science of Business: Being the Philosophy of Successful Human Activity ...

Arthur Frederick Sheldon - 1917 - 172 pages
...order to attract the "favorable attention" of the eye of the mind — perception. The old, old maxim, mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body), takes on an added significance in the light of facts revealed by physiological psychology. We see now...
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The University of Pennsylvania, Franklin's College: Being Some Account of ...

Horace Mather Lippincott - 1919 - 306 pages
...physical exercise for the healthy development of youth has prompted the motto of the Athletic Association, "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano" — a sound mind in a sound body — and has caused the University to see its responsibility in the proper direction of athletics so...
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The Olympian System of Physical and Mental Development, Volume 4

Olympian System - 1919 - 360 pages
...up the body for the sake of the brain. We may see more clearly the foundation for the ancient truth, "Mens sana in corpore sano." (A sound mind in a sound body.) It is true that there have been instances of men with seemingly weak bodies and great minds, but they...
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A Grammar of the English Language: The 1818 New York First Edition with ...

William Cobbett - 1983 - 202 pages
...pain, are received 'The phrase derives ultimately from Juvenal's Satires. X, 356; "Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano" ("A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for"). Possibly Cobbett is thinking here of the first line of Locke's Thoughts...
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Virtue and Medicine: Explorations in the Character of Medicine, Volume 1

E.E. Shelp - 1985 - 394 pages
...it was because they believed that it was a necessary part of the developed and balanced personality. Mens sana in corpore sano, 'a sound mind in a sound body', was a Greek ideal that was in turn passed on to the Romans. 7 The Greeks thought it as perverse to...
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek ...

John G. Robertson - 1991 - 276 pages
...(in eternal remembrance) memoria technica (system of memory) A mnemonical system or use of mnemonics. mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body) -Juvenal meo periculo (at my own risk) meridies (m., noon, middle of the day) miliaria [plural], miliarium...
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Sport in Australian Drama

Richard Fotheringham - 1992 - 286 pages
...discursive strategies based on the mind/body split of Western intellectual culture. The alternative mens sana in corpore sano ('a sound mind in a sound body') of ancient Greek and Roman society, while Sport and Drama: The Uneasy Playmates it is occasionally...
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