 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...iLHdren, or give a cup of drink to the poor In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach rut to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me h'-w to draw, how to lay my body in my how, and riot M '¡raw with strength of arms as divers other... | |
 | 1853 - 428 pages
...peace ; for they do not their duty, they be negligent in executing these laws of shooting. In my time, my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn me any other tiling, and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1854 - 328 pages
...hath been in times past much esteemed in the realm, in which we excel all other nations. In my time, my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot,...me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and to draw, not with strength of arm, as other nations do, but with strength of body. But now we have... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...abroad. — Dr. Brewer's Allison's Guide to Eng. His. [Notes 11, 12, 13.] Archery. 15. In my time, my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot...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 Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...thing for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor. In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot,...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 pages
...games were forbidden by statute. || Complaining of the decay of archery, Latimer says, " In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot,...draw with strength of arms, as other nations do." The good bishop exclaims, with the enthusiasm of a patriot, — " It is a gift of God that he hath... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...thing for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor. In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot,...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 612 pages
...God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor." " In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot...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 ; as I increased... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 pages
...In my 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...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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1857 - 494 pages
...into Blackheath field." The son himself was trained to future service. " In my time," he relates, " my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me anj other thing ; and so I think other men did their children." " He kept me to school," says the grateful... | |
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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 divers other... 
