Izaak Walton and His FriendsChapman & Hall, 1903 - 263 pages |
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... look back upon my education and mean abilities , it is not with- out some little wonder at myself that I am come to be publicly in print , " and he would not 1 Walton quotes Thucydides in his Life of Sanderson ; but a translation of ...
... look back upon my education and mean abilities , it is not with- out some little wonder at myself that I am come to be publicly in print , " and he would not 1 Walton quotes Thucydides in his Life of Sanderson ; but a translation of ...
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... look- ing at - even stones and weeds and the most familiar animals . Read good books , not forgetting the best of all . " Walton could say , with Sir Henry Wotton , of angling : " Twas an employment for his idle time , which was then ...
... look- ing at - even stones and weeds and the most familiar animals . Read good books , not forgetting the best of all . " Walton could say , with Sir Henry Wotton , of angling : " Twas an employment for his idle time , which was then ...
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... looks on these with joyful eye , His mind is wrapt above the starry sky . " An All this is just what the ordinary man cannot understand - it is " foolishness " foolishness " to him . " athlete " is understood , and a " capuchin , " as ...
... looks on these with joyful eye , His mind is wrapt above the starry sky . " An All this is just what the ordinary man cannot understand - it is " foolishness " foolishness " to him . " athlete " is understood , and a " capuchin , " as ...
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... look upon one another the next morning . Fancy in these days men praying before , and as part of , their recrea- tion ! Yet in " primitive " times they did . - 1 Mercurius Hermon , in verses to Richard Franck , writes : - " Sir , you ...
... look upon one another the next morning . Fancy in these days men praying before , and as part of , their recrea- tion ! Yet in " primitive " times they did . - 1 Mercurius Hermon , in verses to Richard Franck , writes : - " Sir , you ...
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... him upon the 1 Only an eye - witness , I contend , could have written thus : " And indeed his very words and looks testified him to be truly such a man ; F point is simply to make him a liar . In IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 81.
... him upon the 1 Only an eye - witness , I contend , could have written thus : " And indeed his very words and looks testified him to be truly such a man ; F point is simply to make him a liar . In IZAAK WALTON AND HIS FRIENDS 81.
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