 | James Mackness - 1842 - 176 pages
...strength of the body. I had my bows brought me 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 unless they be brought up to it. It is a godly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how fell upon a dny, In the merry month of May, Si t<> draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1845 - 424 pages
...diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength : as I increased in them, so my bowa were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well, except they be brought up in it... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1845 - 428 pages
...diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength : as I increased in them, so my bqws were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well, except they be brought up in it... | |
 | Ely Hargrove, Alfred E. Hargrove - 1845 - 368 pages
...not tcr draw wyth strength of armes, as other nacions do, but wyth strength of bodye. I had my bowes bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bowes were made bigger and bigger : for men shall never shute well excepte they be brought up in it.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...shoot, an to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how t him, by my fay, Under a tree, and there he will abide, Nor for your boast he divers other nations do, brat with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...shoot as to leam 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...increased in them so my bows were made bigger and bigger " As to the time of his birth, it has, we think, been satisfactorily established to have been 1490... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 pages
...enforces the practice of archery, has the following passage : " In my time my father taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of body. I had my bows brought me according to my age and strength : as I increased in them, so my bows... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...to lay my body in the bow — not to draw with strength of arm, >» other nations do, but with the strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; a» I increased in these my bows were made bigger and bigg"* Under this education, and in the wholesome... | |
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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... 
