The Art of Fishing on the Principle of Avoiding Cruelty: With Approved Rules for Fishing, Used During Sixty Years' Practice, Not Hitherto Published in Any Work on the SubjectLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 68 pages |
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angler APPROVED RULES art of angling ART of FISHING artificial fly AVOIDING CRUELTY Bakewell biting bob or side-flies bottom captured fish casting net catching fish CHAPTER colour common angling comparative mercy contemplative Christian DANIEL B FEARING directions drake dubbing elbow endeavour fasten feathers finger fishermen flew float fish fly-fisherman fly-fishing fly-maker FREQUENT THE RIVERS gimp gorged ground gudgeon hackle HARVARD COLLEGE hook hoop Izaak Walton KILLED IMMEDIATELY knot landing landing net lead line lint live bait live flies LL.B merciless meshes natural fly nets NEW-STREET SQUARE pain and suffering pike pound weight PRINCIPLE OF AVOIDING Raymond Oliver recommend recreation right hand rod and line RULES FOR FISHING sides SNAP-HOOK sport stick stream style of fishing surface swallowed the bait tail tapering throw thumb tip end TREAT YOUR FISH trimmer troll or snap trout twine weeds whip wool worm yards
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Page vii - I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy. But if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing...
Page vii - But if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing : for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity...
Page vii - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful...
Page iv - Caesar, he thought fit to find it in the mouth of a fish ? These are all of them so many mysteries and sacraments, that oblige you, in a more particular manner, to the praises of your Creator. It is from God, my beloved fish, that you have received being, life, motion, and sense. It is he that has given you, in compliance with your natural inclinations, the whole world of waters for your habitation.
Page iii - Do you think that, without a mystery, the first present that God Almighty made to man, was of you. 0 ye fishes ? Do you think that without a mystery, among all creatures and animals which were appointed for sacrifices, you only were excepted, O ye fishes ? Do you think there was nothing meant by our Saviour Christ. that next to the paschal lamb he took so much pleasure in the food of you, 0 ye fishes...
Page ii - When the heretics would not regard his preaching, he be took himself to the sea-shore, where the river Marecchia disem bogues itself into the Adriatic. He here called the fish together in the name of God, that they might hear his holy word.
Page 52 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And (Master) half our work is done.
Page v - You are not solicitous about hours or days, months or years; the variableness of the weather, or the change of seasons. " In what dreadful majesty, in what wonderful power, in what amazing providence did God Almighty distinguish you among all the species of creatures that perished in the universal deluge? You only were insensible of the mischief that had laid waste the whole world. '.,''• " All this, as I have already told you, ought to inspire you with gratitude and praise towards the Divine...
Page v - ... laid waste the whole world. "All this as I have already told you, ought to inspire you with gratitude and praise towards the Divine Majesty, that has done so great things for you, granted you such particular graces and privileges, and heaped upon you so many distinguished favours.
Page v - He had no sooner done speaking, but behold a miracle ! The fish, as though they had been endued with reason, bowed down their heads with all the marks of a profound humility and devotion, moving their bodies up and down with a kind of fondness, as approving what had been spoken by the blessed father St. Antonio.