 | James Wilson - Fishes - 1840 - 510 pages
...like to be long." See British Bibliography, by Sir Eg. Bridges and Joseph Haselwood, vol. ii. p. 356. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. 12mo, Lond. 1653. This is the first edition of Izaak Walton's celebrated work. It went through five... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library - Incunabula - 1842 - 476 pages
...Philologicns, item J. Drusii de Proverbiis sacris Classesduse. Tiguri, 1673. Fol. WALTON, IZAAK. The Cornpleat Angler, or the contemplative man's recreation. Being...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. London, by T. Maxey, for Rich. Marriot, 1653. Plates. 16mo. G. м. The first edition. — Compleat... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...title-page, though Walton thought proper to omit it in the future editions, this apposite motto : " Simon Peter said, I go a fishing ; and they said, We also will go with thee." John xxi. 3. « Vide infra, chap. v. t A note of the pious simplicity of former times, which united piayer... | |
 | Horse racing - 1832 - 712 pages
...and the only sermon he was ever heard to praise was by an honest country parson, from John xxi. 3: "Simon Peter said, I go a fishing; and they said, We also will go with thee." I would fain, Mr. Editor, write of other matters; such as hunters, their form and condition — hounds,... | |
 | James Wilson - Fishes - 1844 - 528 pages
...and Joseph Haselwood, vol. ii. p. 356. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OB THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S BECREATION ; being a discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. 12mo. Lond. 1653This is the first edition of Isaak Walton's celebrated work. It went through five editions... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...morality it so sweetly inculcates. The motto to the first edition was as follows, from the Bible — " Simon Peter said, I go a fishing ; and they said, We also will go with thee ;" but in the succeeding editions, Walton thought proper to omit it, which was undoubtedly a right... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...morality it so sweetly inculcates. The motto to the first edition was as follows, from the Bible — " 45 w Jl go with thee ;" but in the succeeding editions, Walton thought proper to omit it, which was undoubtedly... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1847 - 606 pages
...anlegen, und was man beim Fischfang beobachten soil. Korn, Breslau, 1785. *WALTON'S (!SAAC, of Stafford) COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation,...Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. 12mo., Lond., 1653; f2d edit., 12mo., Lond., 1655; 3d edit., Lond.. 1664 ; f4th edit., 12mo., Lond.,... | |
 | G. W. Soltau - Fishing - 1847 - 112 pages
...the title page, (though Walton thought proper to omit it in future editions) this apposite motto, " Simon Peter said, I go a fishing, and they said, we also will go with thee." John xxi. 3. Isaac Walton, was born at, Stafford, in August, 1593. He settled in London as a shopkeeper,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...therefrom. The title readeth as follows : " The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Kecrcation — being a discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy...and they said, We also will go with Thee. — John 21: 3." One may be assured at the outset, by such title as this, that many elements more than ordinary... | |
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The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. Simon Peter said, I go a fishing : and they said, we also -will go with thee. 
