 | 1853 - 422 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...my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my hows were made bigger and bigger : for men shall never shoot well except they be brought up in it."... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 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 other nations do." The good bishop exclaims, with the enthusiasm of a patriot, — " It is a gift of God that he hath... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 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...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 or 1491.... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 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...to my age and strength ; as I increased in them so mv bows were made bigger and bigger. ' As to the time of his birth, it has we think been satisfactorily... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 612 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 other nations do, hut with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 550 pages
...how to lay my body in the bow — not to draw with strength of arm, as other nations do, but with the strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased in these, my bows were made bigger and bigger. '§ Under this education, and in the wholesome atmosphere... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 pages
...shoote, as to learne me any other tbing ; 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 drawe with strength of armes, as other nations doe, but with strength of the bodye. I had my bowes... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 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...of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength : as I increased in them, so my bows... | |
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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... 
