Izaak Walton and His FriendsChapman & Hall, limited, 1904 - 263 pages |
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... natural and becoming , such as not even the Universities can bestow . " Bethune writes that Walton's " knowledge of Latin , a few scraps of which appear on his pages , was evidently very slight . " I suggest he was at least a fair Latin ...
... natural and becoming , such as not even the Universities can bestow . " Bethune writes that Walton's " knowledge of Latin , a few scraps of which appear on his pages , was evidently very slight . " I suggest he was at least a fair Latin ...
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... nature of his business will never now be discovered . It is usually supposed that he was a linendraper , sempster , haberdasher , milliner or merchant . That he was an ironmonger , as has been lately so confidently asserted , is ...
... nature of his business will never now be discovered . It is usually supposed that he was a linendraper , sempster , haberdasher , milliner or merchant . That he was an ironmonger , as has been lately so confidently asserted , is ...
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... nature ample for the comfortable housing of many at a time ; he had even a special genius for bishops , and seems to have known nearly the whole episcopal bench of his day . " Lowell gives us his own explanation of what he means by ...
... nature ample for the comfortable housing of many at a time ; he had even a special genius for bishops , and seems to have known nearly the whole episcopal bench of his day . " Lowell gives us his own explanation of what he means by ...
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... or calling , and he suggests that Christ found the hearts of such men by nature fitted for contemplation and quietness . He quotes some verses expressing this idea . The last stanza runs : IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 25.
... or calling , and he suggests that Christ found the hearts of such men by nature fitted for contemplation and quietness . He quotes some verses expressing this idea . The last stanza runs : IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 25.
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... nature , I love to kill nothing but fish . ” Richard Franck ( 1624-1708 ) of whom the reader will read more later on - quieted his own qualms about taking life in sport , by quoting the command : " Arise , Peter , kill and eat ! " I ...
... nature , I love to kill nothing but fish . ” Richard Franck ( 1624-1708 ) of whom the reader will read more later on - quieted his own qualms about taking life in sport , by quoting the command : " Arise , Peter , kill and eat ! " I ...
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