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... Walton long ago made Angling a medium for inculcating the most fervent piety and the purest mo- rality . Nor can the finny tribes themselves fail to excite in our minds surprise and ad- miration , whether we consider the singularities ...
... Walton long ago made Angling a medium for inculcating the most fervent piety and the purest mo- rality . Nor can the finny tribes themselves fail to excite in our minds surprise and ad- miration , whether we consider the singularities ...
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... Walton . Isaac Walton being so well known , and his work on angling in the possession of most per- sons , --- it has been thought proper to extract but little from him , --- his commendation on angling is known to all lovers of the ...
... Walton . Isaac Walton being so well known , and his work on angling in the possession of most per- sons , --- it has been thought proper to extract but little from him , --- his commendation on angling is known to all lovers of the ...
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... Walton Club . " THE ANGLER . In a morning stroll along the banks of the Alun ( a beautiful little stream that flows down from the Welsh hills , and throws itself into the Dee ) , my attention was attracted to a group seated on the ...
... Walton Club . " THE ANGLER . In a morning stroll along the banks of the Alun ( a beautiful little stream that flows down from the Welsh hills , and throws itself into the Dee ) , my attention was attracted to a group seated on the ...
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... Walton who has once indulged in salmon fishing , will feel little satisfaction in the more common pursuits and lesser pleasures of the gentle art . But it requires an expert practitioner Loch to insure success , as may be seen by the 30 ...
... Walton who has once indulged in salmon fishing , will feel little satisfaction in the more common pursuits and lesser pleasures of the gentle art . But it requires an expert practitioner Loch to insure success , as may be seen by the 30 ...
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... Walton , Daniel , Sunday afternoon , be- tween five and six o'clock , several individuals who were standing on the shore beneath the cliffs opposite New Brighton , observed a singular ap- pearance on the water near the mouth of the ...
... Walton , Daniel , Sunday afternoon , be- tween five and six o'clock , several individuals who were standing on the shore beneath the cliffs opposite New Brighton , observed a singular ap- pearance on the water near the mouth of the ...
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2nd edit 3rd edit 4th edit Angler in Ireland animals appears Art of Angling bait barbel begynneth boat boke bones bottom bream carp catch caught chub colour dace Dagenham delight Editor eels fastened feet long fins Fish and Fish Fish Ponds fisher fishermen five flies fly-fishing four fresh water fysshyng Gent gentle gentleman grayling gudgeon Hawking Hist hook hundred Hunting huntynge Ichthyophagi Imprynted at London inches in length inches long inhabitants Ireland John Hawkins lake Lond mackerel Method of Fishing minnow mouth native natural Pallas Pennant perch pike Piscatory pounds weight quantity red worm resembles river River Thames roach salmon salt sea fish season shad small fish smelt spawn species Sporting Mag stickleback streams sturgeon surface swimming tackle tail taken tench Thames Treatise trolling trout Walton weighed wood-cut Wynkyn de Worde young
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...
Page 182 - Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with their hair on end, and terror and agony in their eyes ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy.