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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... "
The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of ... - Page 179
by Hugh Latimer - 1824
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 1

George Burnett - 1807 - 508 pages
...do, but with strength of the body. I hud my bows bought me according to my age and strength ; as 1 increased in them, so my 'bows were made bigger and...shoot well, except they be brought up in it : it is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. He then gives an account of...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 1

George Burnett - 1807 - 944 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...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

1808 - 606 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...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 442 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. As I encreased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger : for men shall never shoot well, except...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 454 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. As I encreased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger: for men shall never shoot well, except they...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 288 pages
...with strength of armes as other natious doe, bni. with strength of the hodye. I had my Lowes hought me according to my age and strength: as I increased in them, so my howes were made higger and higger : for men shall nener shoote well, except they he hrought up in it."...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 55

1868 - 522 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...men shall never shoot well except they be brought up to it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic." exercise, and...
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Hugh Latimer - 1832 - 372 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...except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly art, a wholethey never omitted the wholesome exercises of sliding, and skating on the great fen or moor, which...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Latimer's Sermons

1832 - 352 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...except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly art, a wholethey never omitted the wholesome exercises of sliding, and skating on the great fen or moor, which...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 2

1833 - 270 pages
...strength : as I encreased in them, so my bowes were made bigger and bigger, for men shall never shoate well, except they be brought up in it. It is a goodly arte, a wholesome kinde of exercise, and much comm»"~ ysicke." Extract II. From the Conference between...
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