 | Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - 484 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 ahoot well except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 484 pages
...nation do, but with strength of thc 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. tJuand des hontmes sont, comme ceux-ci, doués d'un naturel sérieux, munis d'un esprit... | |
 | Frederick John Snell - 1905 - 210 pages
...arms, 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 physick. In 1505 he was sent to Clare... | |
 | Great Britain. Sovereign, Southampton Record Society, Southampton, England - 1916 - 188 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...men shall never shoot well except they be brought up to it. It is a godly art, a wholesome kind of exercise and much commended in physic." There is considerable... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - 1907 - 470 pages
...the string need never touch the arm." Another passage in his published sermons says that Archery " is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." The same learned bishop, in his Sixth Sermon, boldly designated the bow " Goddes instrumente."... | |
 | George Gordon Coulton - 1917 - 402 pages
...the body : I had my bows bought me, according to 1 As divers other, 1607. 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 physio." Latimer insists also on the... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1921 - 546 pages
...and not to draw with the strength of arras as divers other nations do, but with strength of body ... it is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in phjsic. ' Nor do we like the word ' fictitious" in connexion with the action of ejectment. Neither... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 pages
...do, but with strength of body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; and 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. (2) The Decline of Yeomanry.... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1926 - 768 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. We may be sure that Crecy and Agincourt had been vicariously won by... | |
 | John Benjamin Firth - 1926 - 462 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 well unless they be brought up in it. It is a worthy game, 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 ;... 
