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Page vi
... The combination of the two subjects is one which may be thought to require some explanation . By those who take no interest in Field- sports , Hunting , Shooting and Fishing will PREFACE . vii be , naturally enough , classed together.
... The combination of the two subjects is one which may be thought to require some explanation . By those who take no interest in Field- sports , Hunting , Shooting and Fishing will PREFACE . vii be , naturally enough , classed together.
Page vii
... Shooting with Natural History - as Fishing is joined in the following Notes - might perhaps be fairly open to ex- ception , as a union of two subjects not of themselves sufficiently connected . But Fishing , to my mind , occupies in ...
... Shooting with Natural History - as Fishing is joined in the following Notes - might perhaps be fairly open to ex- ception , as a union of two subjects not of themselves sufficiently connected . But Fishing , to my mind , occupies in ...
Page viii
... Shooting are in great measure destitute of it is not their fault but their misfortune . In the first place , exactly as both season , and the circumstances under which their several pursuits are conducted tend to frustrate any attempt ...
... Shooting are in great measure destitute of it is not their fault but their misfortune . In the first place , exactly as both season , and the circumstances under which their several pursuits are conducted tend to frustrate any attempt ...
Page ix
... ( Shooting ) we are , if possible , still worse off , for " Shooter " can scarcely be considered to have been ever commonly adopted , " Shooting - man " is utterly inadmissible , and " Shot , " if it ever conveys a similar meaning ...
... ( Shooting ) we are , if possible , still worse off , for " Shooter " can scarcely be considered to have been ever commonly adopted , " Shooting - man " is utterly inadmissible , and " Shot , " if it ever conveys a similar meaning ...
Page xii
... Shooting , and Fishing , may be , perhaps not unfairly , tested by comparing the standard works on each , and thus forming an estimate of the regard in which Nature and the study of Natural History are held by their respective votaries ...
... Shooting , and Fishing , may be , perhaps not unfairly , tested by comparing the standard works on each , and thus forming an estimate of the regard in which Nature and the study of Natural History are held by their respective votaries ...
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