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Page vii
... probably considered as equally remote and indirect . Now , as to the two former , they may to a certain extent be right ; an attempt to join either Hunting or Shooting with Natural History - as Fishing is joined in the following Notes ...
... probably considered as equally remote and indirect . Now , as to the two former , they may to a certain extent be right ; an attempt to join either Hunting or Shooting with Natural History - as Fishing is joined in the following Notes ...
Page xiii
... probably dispute . 1 Yarrell says , that few have expressed their admiration of the Nightingale's song in more fervent or more natural terms than " honest Izaak Walton , who loved birds almost as well as he loved fish , " - quoting from ...
... probably dispute . 1 Yarrell says , that few have expressed their admiration of the Nightingale's song in more fervent or more natural terms than " honest Izaak Walton , who loved birds almost as well as he loved fish , " - quoting from ...
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... probably be adopted with advantage , in addition to , if not in lieu of , my own , ) but simply because , having in vain con- sulted the ordinary books on fishing for the information I required , I should have been very 4 DIRECTIONS FOR ...
... probably be adopted with advantage , in addition to , if not in lieu of , my own , ) but simply because , having in vain con- sulted the ordinary books on fishing for the information I required , I should have been very 4 DIRECTIONS FOR ...
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... probably a more practical knowledge of it than most , being a good fisherman himself : but spinning - tackle is of all the most difficult to get properly made , and no one , who does not make his own , can be too par- ticular in seeing ...
... probably a more practical knowledge of it than most , being a good fisherman himself : but spinning - tackle is of all the most difficult to get properly made , and no one , who does not make his own , can be too par- ticular in seeing ...
Page 32
... unfortunate individual on the hook , who is forth- with bolted . The presence of the free Bleak would probably be sufficient to disarm the sus- picions of the most wily Trout . CHAPTER III . How to catch Carp - Tame Carp.
... unfortunate individual on the hook , who is forth- with bolted . The presence of the free Bleak would probably be sufficient to disarm the sus- picions of the most wily Trout . CHAPTER III . How to catch Carp - Tame Carp.
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Page xiii - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, 'Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...