...been God's instrument, whereby He hath given us many victories against our enemies. * * * In my time 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...

...he was sent to the University of Cambridge. But his father did not neglect his physical training. " My poor father 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 on my bow, and not to draw with strength...

...It serves, 'my poor father was as diligent to teach derives its name from having formerly been held me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so [ in the church of St. Mary-le-liow (de A re til us), I think other men did their children. He taught...

...hearers. With no approach to egotism, Latimer's sermons are full of himself. " In my time," he says, " my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as any other thing. He taught me how to lay my body in the Ьоги, and not to draw with strength of...

...in a sermon preached before Edward VI., in commending the practice of archery, said : " 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 to the bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of...

...in a sermon preached before Edward VI., in commending the practice of archery, said : " 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 to the bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of...

...defended withal.' Latimer, preaching before the king in 1549, draws the portrait of a yeoman: 'In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot...and so, I think, other men did their children. He tanght me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other...

...to teach me to shoot as to learn any other thing. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body on a bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as other nations do, but with .strength of body. I had bows bought me according to my age and strength; as I increased in them so my bows were...

...subsequently changed to the first Thursday in July. " In my time," says Bishop Latimer, writing in 1509, "my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot...children ; he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body to the bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as divers other nations do, but with strength of...

...language. Shakespeare, Tempest, i. 2. 365. Wiclif uses the form leeren. Latimer says of his father, he ' was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing ' (Serm. p. 197). Hence (Ps. ii. 10, Pr.-Bk.) ' learned ' = taught, instructed. Leasing, sb. (Ps. iv....