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... Tweed Allusion to Mr. Yarrell's " History of British Fishes , " Page 51 51 Note ... 52 Changeful state of the Tweed . 53 Variety of bait required ... 54 The Rev. Mr. Fenwick a capital fisherman - his mode of Trouling with a Par - tail ...
... Tweed Allusion to Mr. Yarrell's " History of British Fishes , " Page 51 51 Note ... 52 Changeful state of the Tweed . 53 Variety of bait required ... 54 The Rev. Mr. Fenwick a capital fisherman - his mode of Trouling with a Par - tail ...
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... Tweed , near where that noble stream receives the tribute of the Ettrick and the Yarrow . The Cottage - Inn , at which we put up , may have been far inferior to some now open for the reception of travellers in the fascinating regions ...
... Tweed , near where that noble stream receives the tribute of the Ettrick and the Yarrow . The Cottage - Inn , at which we put up , may have been far inferior to some now open for the reception of travellers in the fascinating regions ...
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... Tweed , in consequence of which , the fish , for some reason which I could not exactly ascertain , cease to afford the usual sport ; and my chief amusement was then to fish in the evening , with a small moth - like fly for Par , which ...
... Tweed , in consequence of which , the fish , for some reason which I could not exactly ascertain , cease to afford the usual sport ; and my chief amusement was then to fish in the evening , with a small moth - like fly for Par , which ...
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... Tweed ; and so confident was the latter in his own skill , that he thought he could adapt his fly to almost any condition of the water . He accordingly led C. away to the Tweed , on a day when I felt sure that there was too great a body ...
... Tweed ; and so confident was the latter in his own skill , that he thought he could adapt his fly to almost any condition of the water . He accordingly led C. away to the Tweed , on a day when I felt sure that there was too great a body ...
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... Tweed - where , in fact , they had been able to do nothing . " No one worthy of the name of angler wantonly inflicts pain on the lowest creature in existence ; but this is quite another thing from that morbid sensibility which made an ...
... Tweed - where , in fact , they had been able to do nothing . " No one worthy of the name of angler wantonly inflicts pain on the lowest creature in existence ; but this is quite another thing from that morbid sensibility which made an ...
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Página 202 - in the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken. " But they will maintain the state of the world, and all their desire is in the work of their
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Página 27 - Write ; from henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Página 202 - cannot a city be inhabited ; and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down ; "They shall not be sought for in public counsel, nor sit high in the congregation ; they shall not sit in the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
Página 70 - Be not ye afraid of them ; remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'
Página 80 - most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Página 64 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place ; and, with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 66 - sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven,