 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 486 pages
...resolved to use it, and neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of...scurrility, but some innocent, harmless mirth, of which, ifthou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge; for divines... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 490 pages
...resolved to use it, and. neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of...and tediously, I have in several places mixed, not any1 scurrility. but some innocent, harmless mirth, of which, ifthou be a severe, sour-complexioned... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - Fishing - 1822 - 494 pages
...resolved to use it, and, neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of...that it might prove so to him, and not read dull and tcdi^ ously, I have in several places mixed, not any scurrility, but same innocent, harmless mirth,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 380 pages
...resolved to use it, and neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it, I have made myself a recreation...innocent, harmless mirth, of which, if thou be a severe* sour complexioned man, then I here disallow thec to be & competent judge ; for divines say, there are... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1833 - 350 pages
...resolved to use it, and neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it, I have made myself a recreation...several places mixed, not any scurrility, but some innocent,^harmless ijiljr^h, of which, if thou be a l> severe, sour complexioned man, then I here disallow... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1835 - 348 pages
...have a liberty, so I am resolved to use it, and neglect all sour censures. severe, sour eomplexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge ; for divines say, there are offences givi'n, and offences n,it given, but taken. And I am the willinger to justify the pleasant part of... | |
 | Robert Southey - Musical fiction - 1836 - 472 pages
...dia buona venturs. Orl. Innam. CHAPTER IPI— p. 45. THE SUBJECT OP THIS HISTORY AT HOME AND AT TEA. If thou be a severe sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. — IZAAK WALTON. CHAPTER II. PI— p. 46. WHEREIN CERTAIN QUESTIONS ARE PROPOSED CONCERNING TIME,... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 280 pages
...SKETCHES OF THE PRAIRIES, RIVERS, ANCIENT MOUNDS, EARLY SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC. ^ ** If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge." — IZAAK WALTON. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ' "Pis all barren.'... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 280 pages
...SKETCHES OF THE PRAIRIES, RIVERS, ANCIENT MOUNDS, EARLY SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC. " If tlura be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge."—IZAAK WALTON. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersneba, and cry, ' 'Tis all... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1839 - 594 pages
...resolved to use it, and neglect all sour censures. And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of...tediously, I have in several places mixed, not any scurrity, but some innocent, harmless mirth; of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man,... | |
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And I wish the reader also to take notice, that in writing of it I have made myself a recreation of a recreation ; and that it might prove so to him, and not read dull and tediously, I have in several places mixed, not any 'scurrility, but some innocent,... 
