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" In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other... "
An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and ... - Page 550
by Walter Farquhar Hook - 1850
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Hugh Latimer - 1832 - 372 pages
...shoot, as to learn me any other thing ; and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Latimer's Sermons

1832 - 352 pages
...shoot, as to learn me any other thing ; and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 2

1833 - 270 pages
...shoote as to learn me any other thing, and so I thinke other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to drawe with strength of armes, as other nations doe, but with strength of the bodye. I had my bowes...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 2

1834 - 576 pages
...any other thing, and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to laj my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of...strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according tu my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger: for men shall...
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The history of the reigns of Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth, Volume 1

Sharon Turner - 1835 - 664 pages
...poor father was as diligent in leaching me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing. He taught me how to draw ; how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as 1 increased in these, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for men sliall never shoot well, except...
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The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth ...

Sharon Turner - 1835 - 636 pages
...poor father was as diligent in teaching me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing. He taught me how to draw ; how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my hows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased 'in these, so my bows were made bigger...
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The Philosophy of Living

Herbert Mayo - 1838 - 360 pages
...shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...according to my age and strength ; as I increased in these, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well, except they be brought...
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The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth ...

Sharon Turner - 1839 - 636 pages
...poor father was as diligent in teaching me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing. He taught me how to draw ; how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...according to my age and strength ; as I increased in these, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well, except they be brought...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1840 - 488 pages
...taught me how to draw, to lay my body in my bow ; and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body. I...bigger and bigger, for men shall never shoot well unless they be brought up in it : it is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended...
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The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor

1840 - 516 pages
...learn me any other thing ; and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, to lay my body in my bow ; and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other THE VEW. nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according...
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