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trans. But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.— filed under Death
And upon all that are lovers of virtue; and dare trust in his providence; and be quiet; and go a-angling.— filed under Angling
An excellent angler, and now with God.— filed under Angling
Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be born so.— filed under Angling
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.— filed under Angling
Author's Preface. As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.— filed under Angling
Author's Preface. Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.— filed under Angling
I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. S.— filed under Angling
I shall stay him no longer than to wish that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing.— filed under Angling
The Author's Preface. It [angling] deserves commendations; * * * it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.— filed under Angling
Of recreation there is none So free as fishing is, alone; All other pastimes do not less Than mind and body, both possess: My hand alone my work can do; So I can fish and study too. C.— filed under Angling
The Angler's Song. O! the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any : 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved by many. Other joys Are but toys; Only this, Lawful is; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.— filed under Angling
The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.— filed under Angling
The Angler's Song. Thus use your frog: * * * put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sow the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.— filed under Angling
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, (if I might be judge,) God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.— filed under Angling
Dialogue II. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.— filed under Eating
He directed the stone over his grave to be thus inscribed : Hie jacet hujus Sententiæ primus Author: Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies. Nomen alias quære. Here lies the first author of this sentence; "The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church." Inquire his name elsewhere.— filed under Equality
Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.— filed under Hearing
S. St. 2. No man can lose what he never had.— filed under Love
And what is true of a shopkeeper, is true of a shopkeeping nation. TUCKER (Dean of Gloucester)- Tract, 1766. That which is everybody's business, is nobody's business. S.— filed under Occupations-Military
Poets. Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.— filed under Poetry
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.— filed under Proverbs
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. aa.— filed under Iii
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.— filed under Virtue