 | England - 1828 - 964 pages
...characterise man in his highest or intellectual state; and the fisher for salmon and trout with ihe fly employs not only machinery to assist his physical...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 326 pages
...may be said to characterize man in his highest or intellectual state ; and the fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...be said to characterise man in his highest or imel.. lectual state ; and the fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...picture, there is little to be said concerning the inhumanity of angling : — ' The fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then, as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1828 - 438 pages
...his highest or intellectual stale. The fisher for salmon and trout with the fly, employs not «nly machinery to assist his physical powers, but applies...devices, as well as from active pursuit, belongs to the amuse roent. Than, as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...— ' The fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist his pbysical powers, but applies sagacity to conquer difficulties...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then, as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 300 pages
...may be said to characterize man in his highest or intellectual state ; and the fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist...and the pleasure derived from ingenious resources arid devices, as well as from active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...masterpieces which have immortalized him. The author of " Salmonia" observes, " that the fisher for salmon and trout, with the fly, employs not only machinery to assist his physical poweiS, but applies sagacity to conquer difficulties ; and the pleasure derived from ingenious resources... | |
 | 1830 - 478 pages
...contemplate nature with the eye at once of a poet and a philosopher ! — " The fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then, as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 494 pages
...contemplate nature with the eye at once of a poet and a philosopher ! — " The fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist...active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then, as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and... | |
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... the fisher for salmon and trout with the fly employs not only machinery to assist his physical powers, but, applies sagacity to conquer difficulties; and the pleasure derived from ingenious resources and devices, as well as from active pursuit, belongs... 
