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" 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 nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according to my age and strength; as... "
Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester - Page 327
by Francis Gastrell - 1845
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 1

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 944 pages
...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...shoot well, except they be brought up in it: it is a worthy ganie, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic. He then gives an account...
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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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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1808 - 606 pages
...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...shoot well, except they be brought up in it : it is a worthy game, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended jn physic/ We have been тегу particular...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...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...never shoot well, except they be brought up in it." However excellent the advice of Latimer was, he had some difficulty in procuring attention : yet he...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 pages
...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 :...never shoot well, except they be brought up in it." However excellent the advice of Latimer wasj he had some difficulty in procuring attention : yet he...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 55

1868 - 522 pages
...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 increased in them, so my bows...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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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 2

1834 - 576 pages
...arms as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me according tu my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows...shoot well except they be brought up in it. It is a godly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic.' Holinshed reports that Henry...
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The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth ...

Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835 - 636 pages
...strength of the body. I had my hows bought me according to my age and strength ; as I increased 'in these, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall...never shoot well, except they be brought up in it.' Serm. 70. •2 He says, ' The men of England in times past, when they would exercise themselves, were...
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The Philosophy of Living

Herbert Mayo - Hygiene - 1838 - 360 pages
...strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age and strength ; as I increased in these, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well, except they be brought up to it. It is a godly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic*." ExERCISE OF...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.

John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pages
...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 increased in them, so my bows...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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