 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength...wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic.' 1 Picl. Hist. i. 802. In 1246, 1376. Thierry, iii. 7g. 1 1404-140g. The commons deelared that with... | |
 | 1872 - 416 pages
...body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as other nations do, but with strength of body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...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; as 1 increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger, for men shall never shoot well, except... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...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...shoot well, except they be brought up in it: it is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. LATIMEK. NAPOLEON AND THE... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 well, except they be brought up in it : it is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commendeJ in physic. 1. Pietorial history, I, 802.... | |
 | 1873 - 984 pages
...according to my age and strength. As I increased in these, my bows were made bigger and bigger. . . It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." The little lad " so profited," says Foxe, " at the common schools of his own county, that at the age... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...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...shoot well, except they be brought up in it : it is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. LATIMEB. NAPOLEON AND THE... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 430 pages
...my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength;...goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much ;omttended in physic." 2 In t246, t376. Thierry, iii. 79. into Rome; and that the clergy, being judged... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 pages
...in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength...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,... | |
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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 other nations... 
