Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (1653), he also wrote a number of short biographies including one of his friend John Donne. They have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.
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Trending topics shown first"But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his bless…"
"Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge."
"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt."
"Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice"
"The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon."
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1593
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