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... Fish- ing and shooting are as authoritatively declared to be cruel and bar- barous , as if such was a fact established by mathematics . Even Byron , in most cases prone at the least to think for himself - we won't stop to inquire ...
... Fish- ing and shooting are as authoritatively declared to be cruel and bar- barous , as if such was a fact established by mathematics . Even Byron , in most cases prone at the least to think for himself - we won't stop to inquire ...
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... fish of a dozen pounds avoirdu- pois ? " Look on this picture , and on this . " " Her snout is southwards - right up the middle of the main current of the hill - born river - as if she would seek its very source , where she was spawned ...
... fish of a dozen pounds avoirdu- pois ? " Look on this picture , and on this . " " Her snout is southwards - right up the middle of the main current of the hill - born river - as if she would seek its very source , where she was spawned ...
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... fish wholesale , Then , in the name of Fate , if not of Fun , Grant leave and licence to the Rod and Gun ! The decline and fall of the five bottle era , which introduced into England a better sample of the squirearchy than had hitherto ...
... fish wholesale , Then , in the name of Fate , if not of Fun , Grant leave and licence to the Rod and Gun ! The decline and fall of the five bottle era , which introduced into England a better sample of the squirearchy than had hitherto ...
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... fishing village . In 1736 the population of Liverpool was 19,396 : in 1841 , taken in its suburbs , it amounted to 286,487 , ex- clusive of at least 12,000 seamen belonging to the port ; and we have every reason to believe that before ...
... fishing village . In 1736 the population of Liverpool was 19,396 : in 1841 , taken in its suburbs , it amounted to 286,487 , ex- clusive of at least 12,000 seamen belonging to the port ; and we have every reason to believe that before ...
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... fish could live where they in- habited ; and , as it was death formerly to slay one of these animals , and the punishment at present doubtless nearly as severe , there is every prospect of a fine preserve of them in a few years ; and a ...
... fish could live where they in- habited ; and , as it was death formerly to slay one of these animals , and the punishment at present doubtless nearly as severe , there is every prospect of a fine preserve of them in a few years ; and a ...
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Página 6 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 249 - And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go. " They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now they pick the Bishop's bones ; They gnaw'd the flesh from every limb, For they were sent to do judgment on him.
Página 89 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Página 248 - tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn.
Página 23 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 165 - And plays about the gilded barges' sides; The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious with their lines, and eyes, They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
Página 247 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And...
Página 249 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before...
Página 401 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Página 168 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.