Toxophilus: 1545A. Murray & son, 1902 - 168 páginas Toxophilus?is a book about?longbow?archery?by?Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to?King Henry VIII, it is the first book on archery written in English. This edition was edited by Edward Arber, a notable academic and author. |
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Página 19 - He that wyll wryte well in any tongue, muste folowe thys councel of Aristotle, to speake as the common people do, to thinke as wise men do; and so shoulde curry man vnderstand hym, and the iudgement of wyse men alowe hym.
Página 4 - XXI.) written by her son Roger, in the year 1544, that she and her husband having lived together forty-seven years, at last died on the same day and almost at the same hour. Roger's first years were spent under his father's roof, but he was received at a very youthful age into the family of Sir Antony Wingfield, who furnished money for his education, and placed Roger, together with his own sons, under a tutor, whose name was R. Bond. The boy had by nature a taste for books, and showed his good taste...
Página 7 - Nowell preached his funeral sermon, and testified that he never saw or heard of a person of greater integrity of life, or who was blessed with a more Christian death. Queen Elizabeth, when informed of his decease, declared that she would rather have lost £10,000. than her tutor Ascham. Buchanan did honour to his memory in the following epitaph : Alchnmtim extinct**!
Página 19 - And though to haue written it in an other tonge, had bene bothe more profitable for my study, and also more honest for my name, yet I can thinke my labour wel bestowed, yf with a little hynderaunce of my profyt and name, maye come any fourtheraunce, to the pleasure or commoditie, of the gentlemen and yeomen of Englande, for whose sake I tooke this matter in hande.
Página 146 - All the discommodities whiche ill custome hath graffed in archers, can neyther be quycklye poulled out, nor yet sone reckened of me, they be so manye. Some shooteth, his head forwarde as though he woulde byte the marke : an other stareth wyth hys eyes, as though they shulde flye out : An other winketh with one eye, and loketh with the other : Some make a face with writhing...
Página 146 - ... pricke heyghte. An other maketh a wrynchinge with hys backe, as though a manne pynched hym behynde. An other coureth downe, and layeth out his buttockes, as though he shoulde shoote at crowes. An other setteth forwarde hys lefte legge, and draweth backe wyth head and showlders, as thoughe he pouled at a rope, or els were afrayed of ye marke. An other draweth his shafte well, untyll wythin.
Página 19 - I communed with a man whiche reasoned the englyshe tongue to be enryched and encreased thereby, sayinge: Who wyll not prayse, that feaste, where a man shall drinke at a diner, bothe wyne, ale and beere? Truely...
Página 156 - ... of lead is not so unprofitable in a shoemaker's shop, as an unfit minister made of gross metal is unseemly in the commonwealth. Fathers in old time, among the noble Persians, might not do with their children as they thought good, but as the judgment of the commonwealth always thought best.
Página 19 - ... had bene bothe more profitable for my study, and also more honest for my name, yet I can thinke my labour wel bestowed, yf with a little hynderaunce of my profyt and name, maye come any fourtheraunce, to the pleasure or commoditie, of the gentlemen and yeomen of Englande, for whose sake I tooke this matter in hande. And as for ye Latin or greke tonge, euery...
Página 19 - I maye make hym, that whan the beste of the realme thinke it honest for them to vse, I one of the meanest sorte, ought not to suppose it vile for me to write : And though to haue written...