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Page 149 - Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler ; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 151 - Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance ; to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances ; and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 151 - O Lamb of God : that takest away the sins of the world ; Grant us Thy peace. O Lamb of God : that takest away the sins of the world ; Have mercy upon us.
Page 104 - The mere sight of the little books published by Mr. Cundall — of which some thirty now lie upon my table — is as good as a nosegay. Their actual colours are as brilliant as a bed of tulips, and blaze with emerald, and orange, and cobalt, and gold, and crimson.
Page 150 - That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children ; and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 104 - Collected and edited, with some account of his life and writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, BA Second edition with additions in two volumes.
Page 150 - We befeech Thee to hear us, good Lord. " That it may pleafe Thee to give us true repentance ; to forgive us all our fins, negligences, and ignorances ; and to endue us with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to Thy holy Word;
Page 14 - It is surely a particular hardship, that I should not get bread in my own country (and it is too late to go abroad) after having acquired the reputation of excelling in the most useful art known to mankind; while every one who excels as a Player, Fiddler, Dancer, &c. not only lives in affluence, but has it in their power to save a fortune.
Page 204 - Varnish is yet Boylinghot, which so Burns and Rubifies the Blacking, that it loses much of its brisk and vivid black complexion. " Fifthly, Because Blacking is dear, and adds little to the weight of Inck, they stint themselves to a quantity which they exceed not ; so that sometimes the Inck proves so unsufferable Pale, that the Press-man is forc'd to Rub in more Blacking upon the Block ; yet this he is often so loth to do, that he will rather hazard the content the Colour shall give, than take the...
Page 13 - I have taken the liberty of sending you a specimen of mine, begun ten years ago at the age of forty-seven; and prosecuted ever since, with the utmost care and attention; on the strongest presumption, that if I could fairly excel in this divine art, it would make my affairs easy, or at least give me Bread. But, alas! in both I was mistaken.