 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...that they prey upon, and an acquaintance with, the feigns and tokens of the weather and its changes, the nature of waters, and of the atmosphere. As to... | |
 | 1828 - 964 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings—...atmosphere. As to its poetical relations, it carries ui into the most wild and beautiful scenery of nature ; amongst the mountain lakes, and the clear and... | |
 | 1830 - 758 pages
...demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings — fishes, and the animals they prey upon, and an acquaintance with the signs...carries us into the most wild and beautiful scenery Denature ; amongst the mountain lakes, and the clear and lovely streams that gush from the higher ranges... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1830 - 406 pages
...poetical and beautiful that we cannot refrain from quoting it:—" As to its (angling's) practical relations, it carries us into the most wild and beautiful scenery of nature; amongst the mountain-lakes, and the clear and lovely streams, that gush from the higher ranges of elevated hills,... | |
 | 1831 - 478 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings — fishes, and the animals they prey upon, and an acquaintance with the signs and tokens of the weather and its changes, the nature... | |
 | Charles Thorold Wood - 1835 - 266 pages
...is so true to nature, that we cannot refrain from quoting it : — ' As to its (angling's) practical relations, it carries us into the most wild and beautiful scenery of nature; amongst the mountain-lakes, and the clear and lovely stream, that gush from the higher ranges of elevated hills,... | |
 | Harry Harewood - 1835 - 384 pages
...equanimity. Its connexion with natural science is close and indissoluble, requiring an acquaintance with the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings, fishes and the animals they prey upon ; with a knowledge of the nature of water and of the atmosphere, of the signs and tokens,... | |
 | William Shipley - 1838 - 310 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...changes, the nature of waters and of the atmosphere." Fly-fishing is so graceful and elegant an art, requiring in the practice so much minute attention and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be ' vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...the animals that they prey upon, and an acquaintance wilh the signs and tokens of the weather and its changes, the nature of waters, and of the atmosphere.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1850 - 722 pages
...TOURIST IN THE UNITED STATES. BY CHARLES I, A N.MAN. AUTHOR OF " THE ANGLER IN CANADA." TROUT FISHING. It carries us into the most wild and beautiful scenery of nature ; amongst the muuutain lakes and the clear and lovely streams that gush from the higher range* of elevated hills,... | |
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... resources and devices, as well as from active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and command of temper. As connected with natural science,... 
