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" I was trained up from my earliest years in the art of war. My daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. "
Sports and Games of the Renaissance
by Andrew Leibs - 2004 - 199 pages
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Olaudah Equiano - African Americans - 1837 - 312 pages
...favorite with my mother, and was always with her ; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support, Volume 44

1878 - 626 pages
...favourite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...favorite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...favorite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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Heart of Darkness - Ed. Goonetilleke - Second Edition

Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1999 - 274 pages
...mother and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained from my earliest years in the art of war, my daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins, and my mother adorned me with emblems after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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Slave Narratives (LOA #114): Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat ...

William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - Literary Collections - 2000 - 1066 pages
...favourite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano - Social Science - 2001 - 340 pages
...favourite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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Survivors: True Tales of Endurance

John B. Letterman - Airplane crash survival - 2003 - 472 pages
...favorite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I grew...
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 189 pages
...favourite with my mother, and was always with her, and she used to take particular pains to form my.mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art of war: my dally exercise was shooting and throwing javelins; and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the...
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World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader

Peter N. Stearns - History - 2008 - 433 pages
...favorite with my mother, and was always with her; and she used to take particular pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my earliest years in the art...daily exercise was shooting and throwing javelins, and my mother adorned me with emblems, after the manner of our greatest From The Interesting Narrative...
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