 | John Bartlett - 1882 - 90 páginas
...he states: " This day Mr. Cxsar told me a pretty experiment of his, angling a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over which keeps it from swelling, and is...hair for strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily."—T. Westwood. SCHOMBURGH, RH Fishes of British Guiana. (The Naturalist's Library, Vols.... | |
 | 1909 - 898 páginas
...famous Diary): "This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, angling a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smajlness. The secret I like mightily." No sketch of the literature of angling would be complete without... | |
 | Thomas Westwood, Thomas Satchell - 1883 - 440 páginas
...1667), "This day Mr. Czesar told me a pretty experiment of his angling with a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily." (Vol. III., p. 171. Edition, 1828.) A writer in the Field, (Jan. 2. 1864), on the subject of silk-worm... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1883 - 176 páginas
...says : "This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his angling with a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily." As a matter of fact gut came into pretty general use after the middle of this century. The Gentleman... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1883 - 902 páginas
...1667) : 'This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his angling with a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily' (Vol. III., p. 171, Edition 1828). A writer in the " Field" (Jan. 2, 1864), on the subject of silk-worm... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - 1883 - 442 páginas
...1667), "This day Mr. Cassar told me a pretty experiment of his angling with a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily." (Vol. III., p. 171. Edition, 1828.) A writer in the Field, (Jan. 2. 1864), on the subject of silk-worm... | |
 | 1883 - 718 páginas
...says : "This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his angling with a minikin, a gutt-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily." As a matter of fact gut came into pretty general use after the middle of this century. The Gentleman... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 376 páginas
...much worse," that he fears she cannot long continue, which troubles me very much. This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily, 1 9th. It comes in my mind this night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate Street... | |
 | 1888 - 228 páginas
...March, 1667, he says "This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his of angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over which keeps it from swelling,...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily." The use of a minikin — the term applied to the treble string of a lute or fiddle — cannot, I think,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1895 - 228 páginas
...troubles me very much. This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling,...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily. 19th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined at home very pleasantly with my... | |
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This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minnikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily. 
