 | Governess - 1855 - 884 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 how to draw, how to lay my body on my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 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 how...my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do." The good bishop exclaims, with the enthusiasm of a patriot, — " It is a gift of... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 612 pages
...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...my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, hut with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 pages
...time, my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoote, as to learne me any other tbing ; 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 drawe with strength of armes, as other nations doe, but with strength of the bodye. I had my bowes... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 550 pages
...a sound soldier's training. ' He was diligent,' says Latimer, ' to teach me to shoot with the bow : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in the bow — not to draw with strength of arm, as other nations do, but with the strength of the body.... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...year at the uttermost'] 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...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... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 314 pages
...own age. " My father/' he says, 2 "was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing ; 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 do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 436 pages
...own age. " My father," he says,f "was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing ; 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 do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength... | |
 | Hans Busk - 1860 - 250 pages
...teach me to shoote, as to learne me any other thing; and so I think other men did their children ; and he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of armes as other nations doe, but with weight of the body. I had my bowes bought me according to my age... | |
 | Hans Busk - 1860 - 226 pages
...teach me to shoote, as to learne me any other thing; and so I think other men did their children ; and he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of armes as other nations doe, but with weight of the body. I had my bowes bought me according to my age... | |
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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... 
