A Treatise of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Treatife more than to any other belongs the credit of having affigned in popular eftimation to the angler his meditative and gentle nature. Many pure and noble intelleéts have kindled into lafting'devotion to angling on reading her eloquent commendation of it. Such men as Donne, Wotton, and Herbert, Paley, Bell, and Davy, together with many another excellent and fimple difpofition, have caught enthu fiafrn from her lofty fentiments, and found that not their bodily health only, but alfo their morals, were improved by angling. It became a fchool of virtues, a quiet paftime in which, while looking into their own hearts, they learnt lefi'ons of the higheft wifdom, reverence, refignation, and love love of their fellow-men, of the lower creatures, and of their.

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