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The Herring: Its Effect on the History of Britain (Classic Reprint) Arthur Michael Samuel No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 113 - The fish ofttimes the burgher dispossessed, And sat, not as a meat, but as a guest...
Page 130 - Street; it was the topic in every coffee-house, and the burden of every ballad. We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms. At present we hear no more of all this. We have fished up very little gold that I can learn ; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected.
Page 40 - ... The poorer sort make it three parts of their sustenance. It is every man's money, from the king to the peasant. The round or cob, dried and beaten to powder, is a cure for the stone. Rub a quart-pot, or any measure, round about the mouth with a red herring, the beer shall never foam or froath in it.
Page 92 - Furthermore, touching some particulars needful to be considered of, the mighty huge fishing that ever could be heard of in the world, is upon the coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland ; but the great fishery is in the Low Countries and other petty States, wherewith they serve themselves and all Christendom, as shall appear.
Page 38 - Hal, euery pregnant peculiar of whose resplendent laude and honour, to delineate and adumbrate to the ample life, were a woorke that would drinke drie fourescore and eighteene Castalian fountaines of eloquence, consume another Athens of facunditie, and abate the haughtiest poeticall fury twixt this and the burning Zone and the tropike of Cancer.
Page 40 - A red herring is wholesome in a frosty morning : it is most precious fish-merchandise, because it can be carried through all Europe. No where are they so well cured as at Yarmouth. The poorer sort make it three parts of their sustenance. It is every man's money, from the king to the peasant. The round or cob, dried and beaten to powder, is a cure for the stone. Rub a...
Page 113 - And oft at leap-frog o'er their steeples played, As if on purpose it on land had come To show them what's their mare liberum.
Page 40 - Will this appease you, that you are the predecessors of the apostles, who were poorer fishermen than you ? That, for your seeing wonders in the deep, you may be the sons and heirs of the prophet Jonas ; that you...
Page 169 - A DISCOURSE of the FISHERY. Briefly laying open, not only the Advantages and Facility of the Undertaking, but likewise the Absolute necessity of it ; in Order to the well-being, both of King, and People, asserted and vindicated from all material Objections.
Page 126 - Ibs. of herring bones, dryed and grossly powdered, put them in a retort, lute it, and place it in an open furnace — give it a degree of fire every two hours till no fumes are seen in the receiver. Then let all cool, and there will be an oil, a volatile salt, and a pungent volatile spirit, which put in a clean retort, and by fire unite together. Then take eight ounces of this united spirit, and put into cucurbit with two Ibs.