 Twas an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent;" for Angling was, after tedious study, " a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness...  Yesterday and To-day - Página 96por Cyrus Redding - 1863Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1876 - 668 páginas
...was then not idly spent, for angling was, after a tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness.' And here it was, with all the associations which the place... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...Bacon's Essay, Of Anger. ANGLING. Angling was, after tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness. IZAAK WALTON. I have known a very good fisher angle diligently... | |
 | 1876 - 642 páginas
...was then not idly spent, for angling was, after a tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness.' And here it was, with all the associations which the place... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 páginas
...was then not idly spent: for angling was after a tedious study a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of oontentednese •" and that it "begat hahits of peace and patience in those... | |
 | 1877 - 932 páginas
...pursuits in which we were engaged I may say, as Sir Henry Wot ton did of angling, " that they were a rest to the mind, a cheerer of the spirits, a diverter...sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness." WALKS IN LONDON. NO. III. — THE INNS OF COURT. JUST within... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1877 - 428 páginas
...was then not idly spent;' for Angling was, after tedious study, 'a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1878 - 494 páginas
...was then not idly spent ; for angling was, after tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ;" and " that it begat habits of peace and patience in those... | |
 | Sir Samuel Wilson - 1879 - 278 páginas
...was not then idly spent ; for angling after tedious study was a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passion, a procurer of contentedness, and begets habits of peace and patience in those who practise it." In... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...Bacon's Essay, Of Anger. ANGLING. Angling was, after tedious study, a rest to his mind, a checrer of his stin Allibone passions, a procurer of contentedness. IZAAK WALTON. I have known a very good fisher angle diligently... | |
 | 1883 - 382 páginas
...angling is an employment of our idle time, which is not then idly spent ' ; that therein we find ' a rest to the mind, a cheerer of the spirits, a diverter...sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of the passions, a procurer of contentedness, and that it begets habits of peace and patience in those... | |
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