 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 314 pages
...father/' he says, 2 "was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing ; he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger; for," he adds, in a quaint didactic vein not uncommon with him, as to the affairs of the present life as... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 436 pages
...father," he says,f "was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing ; he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for," he adds, in a quaint didactic vein not uncommon with him, as to the affairs of the present life as... | |
 | 1861 - 412 pages
...so I think other men did their children. He taught me now to draw, how to lay my body in my bow,and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do- but with strength of the body. I had my bows brought me, according to my age and strength ; as I encreased in them, so my bows were made bigger... | |
 | Hans Busk - 1860 - 226 pages
...as to learne me any other thing; and so I think other men did their children ; and he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of armes as other nations doe, but with weight of the body. I had my bowes bought me according to my age... | |
 | Hans Busk - 1860 - 250 pages
...as to learne me any other thing; and so I think other men did their children ; and he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of armes as other nations doe, but with weight of the body. I had my bowes bought me according to my age... | |
 | George Long Duyckinck - 1861 - 234 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...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pages
...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...bows bought me according to my age and strength; as 1 increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger, for men shall never shoot well, except... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | 1863 - 1046 pages
...shoot as to learn me any other thing; and so 1 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 arm, as divers other nations do, but with the strength of the body : 1 had my bows bought me according... | |
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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... 
