 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...  The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer - Page 541884Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1868 - 352 pages
...its practice by every male inhabitant capable of bearing arms. 'In my time,' says Bishop Latimer, ' my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot...think other men did their children ; he taught me bow to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other THE... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1861 - 580 pages
...poor father,' said this sound-hearted Englishman, ' was as diligent to teach me to shoot ' as to teach me any other thing ; and so I think other men did...children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, ' and not to draw by the strength of arms as other nations do.'* The headlands of England,... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1868 - 592 pages
...learn from a sermon which Latimer preached before King Edward VI. in 1549. "In my time," he says, " my poor father was as diligent to teach me to- shoot as to learn any other thing, and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1869 - 1008 pages
...lands of his own, only he had a fitrm of three or four pounds by tho year, at tho utter- j most — was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn me...how to lay my body to the bow, and not to draw with the strength of arms, as the other nations do, but with the strength of body. I had my bows bought... | |
 | 518 pages
...enforced the practice of archery from the pulpit. " In my time," remarks this distinguished prelate, " my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot,...thing, and so I think other men did their children. lie taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 pages
...archery, saying, — "In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach mo to shoot as to learn mo 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 do, but with strength of the body.... | |
 | 1870 - 790 pages
...homely sermons, says : " In my time my poor father was as delighted to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing ; and so I think other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay rny body and my bow, and not to draw with strength of arm, as other nations do, but with strength of... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...drink to the poor.' This is from the sixth sermon, preached before the young king, 12th April 1549: 'In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach...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 do, but with strength of the body.... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 542 pages
...preached before King Edward VI., published in 1549, strongly enforced the practice of archery, ie, " In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach...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 do, but with strength of the body,"... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 546 pages
...VI., published in 1549, strongly enforced the practice of archer)', ie, " In my time my poor Hither was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn me...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 do, but with strength of the body,"... | |
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