 | John Randall - 1873 - 256 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 draw with strength of arms as other nations do ; " and the good bishop exclaims with the enthusiasm... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 pages
...father," he adds, " 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 men will never shoot well except they be brought up in it ; it is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise,... | |
 | Sheffield town trust - 1879 - 170 pages
...shoot as to learn 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... | |
 | 1880 - 104 pages
...have preached before the King's Majesty now.' In another sermon he says, ' 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 bought me, according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...— " 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...in them so my bows were made bigger and bigger.'' Thus boys grew into cross-bowmen, and by a similar increase in the force of their trials, Christians... | |
 | Sheffield (England), Sheffiled. Official Documents, John Daniel Leader - 1879 - 172 pages
...my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength 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 wsre made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well except they be brought up to it. It is... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 pages
...taught i from which place it was removed about 1507 to me how to draw, how t«> lay my b"dy in my b"W, and not to draw with strength of arms as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had the Common Hall of Doctor's Commons, near St. Paul's Church, where it is now held. The acting judge... | |
 | William George Fretton - 1879 - 398 pages
...exercise, and much recommended in physic! My poor father taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in the bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body. 1 ' Long afterwards Charles I. was himself an archer, and during the reigns of Charles II. and James... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 234 pages
...diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body on my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of body I had bows bought me according to my age and strength; as I increased in them so my bows were... | |
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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... 
