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... pleasure of expressing a hope that he to whose taste and exertions these volumes owe nearly all their value , may derive from them the credit which he so well deserves . N. HARRIS NICOLAS . CONTENTS . MEMOIR OF IZAAK WALTON Notice of ...
... pleasure of expressing a hope that he to whose taste and exertions these volumes owe nearly all their value , may derive from them the credit which he so well deserves . N. HARRIS NICOLAS . CONTENTS . MEMOIR OF IZAAK WALTON Notice of ...
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... pleasure I have taken in your style and conceptions , together with a meditation of the subject you propound , may seem to have cast me into a gentle slumber . But being now awaked , I do herein return you most hearty thanks for the ...
... pleasure I have taken in your style and conceptions , together with a meditation of the subject you propound , may seem to have cast me into a gentle slumber . But being now awaked , I do herein return you most hearty thanks for the ...
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... pleasure , know- ledge , and virtue , into his friends and acquaintance . ' Tis confessed these Eclogues are not so wholly divine as many of his published Meditations , which speak ' his affections to be set upon things that are above ...
... pleasure , know- ledge , and virtue , into his friends and acquaintance . ' Tis confessed these Eclogues are not so wholly divine as many of his published Meditations , which speak ' his affections to be set upon things that are above ...
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... pleasure ; before he could return an answer , they were unawares entered into a living moving lane , made of Shepherds and Pilgrims , who had that morning measured many miles to be the eye- witnesses of that day's pleasure . This lane ...
... pleasure ; before he could return an answer , they were unawares entered into a living moving lane , made of Shepherds and Pilgrims , who had that morning measured many miles to be the eye- witnesses of that day's pleasure . This lane ...
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... pleasure ; and this discourse boasts of no more , for I hate to promise much and fail . ” He dedicated the work to John Offley , of Madely Manor , in Staffordshire , Esquire , " his most honoured friend " who , there is some grounds for ...
... pleasure ; and this discourse boasts of no more , for I hate to promise much and fail . ” He dedicated the work to John Offley , of Madely Manor , in Staffordshire , Esquire , " his most honoured friend " who , there is some grounds for ...
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