| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 Seiten
...much worse, that he fears she cannot long continue, which troubles me very much. This day, Mr. Csesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with...night to set down how a house was the other day in Bisbopsgate Street blowed up with powder; a house that was untenanted; but, thanks be to God, it did... | |
| Thomas Egerton Earl of Wilton - 1868 - 356 Seiten
...Mr. Caesar (Pepys' boy's lute-master) told me a pretty experiment of his of angling with a irimiul.m, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling,...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily ."f This account carries us back about two centuries, for what must I suppose be termed the origin... | |
| Thomas Westwood - 1873 - 70 Seiten
...day -Mr. Ce^ar told me a pretty experiment of bis, angling with a minikin, a entt string v:irnishod over, which keeps it from swelling and is Beyond any hair for elrenglh and sinallncss. The secret I like mightily." — T. WEMTWOOD. 285 SCHMALTZ, CS RAFINESQUE,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1875 - 722 Seiten
...says, "This day Mr Ceesar told me a pretty experiment of his, ot angling with a minikin, a guttstring varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...hair for strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily."—Vol. iii. p. 171, ed. 1828. P. 128. The conjecture in the note to this page that " RR"... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1875 - 716 Seiten
...says, "This day Mr Ccusar told me a pretty experiment of his, ol angling with a minikin, a guttstring varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength aiid smallness. The secret I like mightily." — Vol. iii. p. 171, ed. 1828. P. 128. The conjecture... | |
| 1876 - 862 Seiten
...love for the gentle sport, as may be gathered from an entry in his diary in 1666 : This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with...swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and emallness. The secret I like mightily. Evelyn did not often leave SawCourt, where he had just fmisbd... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 522 Seiten
...much worse, that he fears she cannot long continue, which troubles me very much. This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily. 1 9th. It comes in my mind this night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate Street... | |
| Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1877 - 542 Seiten
...much worse, that he fears she cannot long continue, which troubles me very much. This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily. 1 9th. It comes in my mind this night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate Street... | |
| Manchester Anglers' Association - 1880 - 296 Seiten
...day, Mr. Coesar (the lute master) told me of a pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling,...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily. In the early part of the next century (the 18th) lived two remarkable men. One of them we know was... | |
| 1916 - 724 Seiten
..."This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experi. ment of his, of angling with a minnikin, a gut string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and...strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily." The extracts are from the diary of our old friend Samuel Pepys. Busy Tarpon Business TWO remarkable... | |
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