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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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Beeton's Dictionary of universal information; comprising a complete summary ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 pages
...shoot as to learn mo 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...as other nations do, but with strength of the body. It is a godly art, n wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." After tho destruction...
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Feathers for Arrows: Or, Illustrations from My Note Book

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 294 pages
...Strength. " I HAD," said Latimer, describing the way in which his father trained him as a yeoman's son, " my bows bought me according to my age and strength;...increased in them so my bows were made bigger and bigger." Thus boys grew into crossbowmen, and by a similar increase in the force of their trials, Christians...
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Feathers for Arrows; Or, Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My ...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 312 pages
...Strength. " I HAD," said Latimer, describing the way in which his father trained him as a yeoman's son, " my bows bought me according to my age and strength;...increased in them so my bows were made bigger and bigger." Thus boys grew into crossbowmen, and by a similar increase in the force of their trials, Christians...
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The Antiquarian, Volume 1

1871 - 542 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...other nations do, but with strength of the body," etc. A number of noblemen of the court of Queen Elizabeth formed themselves into what was called a...
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The Antiquary, Volumes 1-2

1871 - 546 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...other nations do, but with strength of the body," etc. Л number of noblemen ot the court of Queen Elizabeth formed themselves into what was called a...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 10

1872 - 416 pages
...was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn me any other thing. He taught me how to draw my bow, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with...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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 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...
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Homes of Old English Writers

Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 pages
...taught me how to draw, how to lay my T)ody on my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body. I...as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger ; for men shall never shoot well, except they be brought up to it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome...
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The Antiquary, Volumes 1-2

1871 - 546 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...other nations do, but with strength of the body," etc. Л number of noblemen of the court of Queen Elizabeth formed themselves into what was called a...
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The Midland readers and home lesson books, Book 5

Henry Major - 1873 - 168 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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