 | Christian biography - 1810 - 618 pages
...employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wii and cheerfulness made bis company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind....sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it, was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practistr of my art: of which he would say, ' 'Twas an employment... | |
 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of Angling ; of which he would say, ' 'Twas an employment for his idle time, which... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...whom I have often fished and conversed ; a man, •whom foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind."— (•Complete An?!,r, P I. Ck. I.) In Sir Henry Wo'ton's verses, written by him as he sate fishing on... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed,) a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of Angling; of which he would say, " it was an employment for his idle time, which... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of Angling ; df which he would say, ' 'Twa» an employment for his idle time,... | |
 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of Angling ; of which he would say, ' 'Twas an employment for his idle time, which... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1824 - 516 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...this man was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling ; of which he would say, " 'Twas an employment for his idle " time,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 518 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning,, wit, and...esteemed one of the delights of mankind : this man, whose very'approbation of Angling were sufficient to convince any modest censurer of it, this man was also... | |
 | J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...College, Sir Wotton, ( a man with whom I have often fished and conversed) a man whose foreign employments in the service of the nation', and whose experience,...esteemed one of the delights of mankind — this man, was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practise? of the art of angling ; of which he would say,... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1826 - 146 pages
...with whom I have often fished and conversed ; a man, whom foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness,...company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind." — Complete Angler, edit. 1653. In Sir Henry Wolton's verses, written by him as he sate fishing on... | |
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Sir Henry -Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind... 
