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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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Blackie's comprehensive school series, Part 2

Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 138 pages
...to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body on a 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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The Sunday Magazine, Volume 8

1879 - 996 pages
...diligent to teach me to shoot as any other thing. He taught me how to lay my body in the Ьоги, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of body " — a lesson in archery which was never forgotten. The whole weight of Latimer's manhood was...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...shoot as to learn me any other thing; and so, I think, other men did their children. He tanght me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to...bows bought me according to my age and strength; as I inereased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger: for men shall never shoot well except they...
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Historical reader, Issue 2

George Girling - 1882 - 202 pages
...to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body on a 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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History of English Literature: By H.A. Taine, Translated by H. Van ..., Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pages
...as to fctrn (me) any other thing ; and so, I think, other men did their children. He Unglit me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with toengti of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my l*n bought me according...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1891 - 480 pages
...shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did theii children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strengtb of arms as divers other nation, Telle est la classe obscure encore, mais chaque siècle plus...
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A History and Some Records of the Volunteer Movement in Bury, Heywood ...

T. H. Hayhurst - 1887 - 352 pages
...declaring that his father early taught him to shoot: " 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 to draw with strength of body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased...
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Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged ...

Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pages
...said Latimer, describing the way in which his father trained him as a yeoman's son, "my AFFLICTIONS bows bought me according to my age and strength ;...increased in them so my bows were made bigger and bigger." Thug boys grew into crossbowmen, and by a similar increase in the force of their trials Christians...
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England in the Fifteenth Century

William Denton - 1888 - 358 pages
...country which they had possessed at the 1 " He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body to my bow, not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body." — Sermons, p. 197. See Elyot's Governor, book i., chap. 27 (p. 82, edit. 1565). 2 " He shot like...
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New Studies in Old Subjects

John Anthony Sparvel-Bayly - 1889 - 248 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." It was to this practice, this custom of general training by which every man became in fact a...
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