The Life of Izaak Walton: Including Notices of His ContemporariesT. Gosden, 1826 - 93 páginas |
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... tract of Cases of Conscience ? ' He replied , That he was glad that any had received any benefit by his books ' and added further , ' That if any future tract of his could bring such benefit to any , as we seemed to say his former had ...
... tract of Cases of Conscience ? ' He replied , That he was glad that any had received any benefit by his books ' and added further , ' That if any future tract of his could bring such benefit to any , as we seemed to say his former had ...
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... tract , De Quadraturà Circuli , in his notes on the very margin of the book : and that , sometimes , when Scaliger says A B C D ex Constructione , ' Sir Henry adds with his pen , ' et demonstratio vestra est asinus ex constructione ...
... tract , De Quadraturà Circuli , in his notes on the very margin of the book : and that , sometimes , when Scaliger says A B C D ex Constructione , ' Sir Henry adds with his pen , ' et demonstratio vestra est asinus ex constructione ...
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... tract , written by Colonel Robert Venables , is now before me . The perusal of it calls to memory the days of youth , the guileless scenes of earlier life , spent with innocent companions , in “ delightful walks by pleasant rivers , in ...
... tract , written by Colonel Robert Venables , is now before me . The perusal of it calls to memory the days of youth , the guileless scenes of earlier life , spent with innocent companions , in “ delightful walks by pleasant rivers , in ...
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... tract . - ZOUCH . The Experienced Angler was first printed in 1662 , 12mo . , and now seldom occurs . Richard Marriott , who printed all Walton's publications , printed this also ; and he annexed this tract of Venables to those of ...
... tract . - ZOUCH . The Experienced Angler was first printed in 1662 , 12mo . , and now seldom occurs . Richard Marriott , who printed all Walton's publications , printed this also ; and he annexed this tract of Venables to those of ...
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... tract on the subject . To 2 Walton knew but little of fly - fishing ; and , indeed , he is so ingenuous as to confess , that the greater part of what he has said on that subject was communicated to him by Barker , and not the result of ...
... tract on the subject . To 2 Walton knew but little of fly - fishing ; and , indeed , he is so ingenuous as to confess , that the greater part of what he has said on that subject was communicated to him by Barker , and not the result of ...
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Página 60 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 68 - Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Página 33 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers. Fishponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Página 69 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth...
Página 65 - that he had great reason to give God thanks for his travels ; since, if it were possible, he returned rather more confirmed of the purity of the Protestant religion than he was before.
Página 71 - A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged: but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he...
Página 10 - My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind.
Página 75 - He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Página 46 - So beauteous did the scenery of this delightful spot appear to him, that, to use his own words, " the pleasantness of the river, mountains, and meadows about it, cannot be described, unless Sir Philip Sidney, or Mr. Cotton's father were again alive to do it.
Página 32 - God. Blessed be the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. And blessed be the meek, for they shall possess the earth." Not that the meek shall not also obtain mercy, and see God, and be comforted, and at last come to the kingdom of heaven; but, in the...