 | 1853 - 422 pages
...body. I had my bows bought me according 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." Several of the kings of England were noted for their skill with this weapon. William I. was ever employed... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and...game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. — Bishop Latimer's Sermons. [Notes 35, 13.] 'Rebellions. 16. By a long course of civil... | |
 | H. D. - 1855 - 74 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I -increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and...shoot well except they be brought up in it. It is a godly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." Archery meetings were often... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength; as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and...game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE THE BISHOPS. I was once in examination before five or six bishops,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and...game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. HIS EXAMINATION BEFORE THE BISHOPS. I was once in examination before five or six bishops,... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...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 were made bigger and...shoot well, except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. ... In the reverence of God,... | |
 | 1861 - 412 pages
...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 and bigger :...shoot well, except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly Art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. — Bishop Latimer's 6th Sermon... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 436 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength : as I increased in 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 - 314 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength : as I increased in 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... | |
 | George Long Duyckinck - 1861 - 234 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows were made 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... | |
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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 and strength ;... 
