| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1868 - 348 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.' * So Drayton sings of Robin Hood's famous bowmen: — All made of Spanish yew, their bows... | |
| William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 pages
...nations do, but with strength of the body. I had 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." The Cambridge University,... | |
| 518 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength j as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and...men shall never shoot well except they be brought up to it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." exercise, and... | |
| 1870 - 790 pages
...nations do, but with strength of body. I had my bow bought me, according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and...men shall never shoot well except they be brought up to it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended as physic." The range of... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 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 goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. ' 1 Pict. Hist. i. 802. In... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 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 goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. ' 1 Pict. Hist. i. 802. In... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...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....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,... | |
| 1872 - 416 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 bigger; for men shall never shoot or do anything else well except they be brought up to it; it is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise,... | |
| Henry Major - 1873 - 164 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. LATIMEK. NAPOLEON AND THE SAILOR. Napoleon-Yrench Emperor Boulogne — a town in N. France... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 478 pages
...body. I had my bows bouglit me according to my âge and strength; as I increased in them, so my bDWs were made bigger and bigger, for men shall never shoot...worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commendeJ in physic. 1. Pietorial history, I, 802. En 1245, 1246, 1376. A. Thierry, ni, 79. jugés... | |
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