The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's RecreationWiley & Putnam, 1847 - 249 pages |
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Page vii
... salmon leis- ter ( waster , as the Scotch call it ) is the same implement with two prongs added to the three . The other passage quoted by our author from the Old Testament is in Amos iv . , 2 ( B.C. 787 ) , and not remark- able ...
... salmon leis- ter ( waster , as the Scotch call it ) is the same implement with two prongs added to the three . The other passage quoted by our author from the Old Testament is in Amos iv . , 2 ( B.C. 787 ) , and not remark- able ...
Page xxiii
... salmon we may name ; Perhaps ' twere either , were its age the same . ( Quære : was it the salmon - trout ? Ausonius has not been the only one puzzled by the questions he suggests . ) A little further on , among some minor sorts of ...
... salmon we may name ; Perhaps ' twere either , were its age the same . ( Quære : was it the salmon - trout ? Ausonius has not been the only one puzzled by the questions he suggests . ) A little further on , among some minor sorts of ...
Page xlvi
... salmon roe to be what Williamson ( a century and a half after him ) calls " a most lovely bait for trout and salmon . ” This is the Barker from whom Walton says ( chap . v . ) he derived his principal knowledge of fly - fishing , in ...
... salmon roe to be what Williamson ( a century and a half after him ) calls " a most lovely bait for trout and salmon . ” This is the Barker from whom Walton says ( chap . v . ) he derived his principal knowledge of fly - fishing , in ...
Page lxiv
... salmon are painted to the life . " Absurd as he is , there are many pages in his grandiloquent work worth reading , and though but two hundred and fifty of the edition were printed , copies are sometimes to be met with , which deserve a ...
... salmon are painted to the life . " Absurd as he is , there are many pages in his grandiloquent work worth reading , and though but two hundred and fifty of the edition were printed , copies are sometimes to be met with , which deserve a ...
Page lxvi
... salmon with three hairs at hook , whose collections and experiments were lost with himself . " These extracts show the spleen of Franck against our author ; and the fact of his having a conversation with him before the third edition of ...
... salmon with three hairs at hook , whose collections and experiments were lost with himself . " These extracts show the spleen of Franck against our author ; and the fact of his having a conversation with him before the third edition of ...
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The Complete Angler, Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Vol. 2 (Classic ... Izaak Walton No preview available - 2017 |
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