 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 pages
...had my bows bought me according to my age and strength : 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 kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. Marcilius Ficinus,... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 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. LATIMEB. NAPOLEON AND THE SAILOR. Napnleon-French Emperor Boulogne — a town in N. France... | |
 | Sheffield town trust - 1879 - 170 pages
...I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows ware made bigger and bigger ; for 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." The Sheffield... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 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 will never shoot well except they be brought up in it ; it is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise,... | |
 | 1880 - 502 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." At nineteen years of age he... | |
 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - 1884 - 354 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...game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." The encouragement thus given to shooting with the long-bow caused archery to become a fashionable... | |
 | 1884 - 388 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...game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." The encouragement thus given to shooting with the long-bow caused archery to become a fashionable... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...with strength of the body. I had my 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 be bronght up in It. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic.'... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 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...game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." There were six, and in later times twelve, competitors for John Lyon's silver arrow ; and... | |
 | Samuel Edward Herrick - 1884 - 356 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." It is only a glimpse that... | |
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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 ;... 
