. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . lovedof all good men. He lived forty years after his retirement frombusiness in 1643, spending most of his time in the houses of distin-guished persons, whose friendship he had won by his goodness andhis writings, or with whom his matrimonial alliance had connectedhim. Walton wrote several works besides his principal one, TheComplete Angler, and all were distinguished for charming sim-plicity, affecting moral sentiment, and impressive wisdom. Hiecoadjutor, Cotton, furnishes a sadder hist
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . lovedof all good men. He lived forty years after his retirement frombusiness in 1643, spending most of his time in the houses of distin-guished persons, whose friendship he had won by his goodness andhis writings, or with whom his matrimonial alliance had connectedhim. Walton wrote several works besides his principal one, TheComplete Angler, and all were distinguished for charming sim-plicity, affecting moral sentiment, and impressive wisdom. Hiecoadjutor, Cotton, furnishes a sadder history; his is the oft-tolutale of opportunities wasted, and life declining into poverty as vreLas old age. His accomplishments, wit, and amiable dispositionmight have rendered him both happy and eminent, had he possessedmore prudence or more wealth ; but wanting both of those primerequisites of success in the world, he fell into difficulties and diedinsolvent, leaving behind him ju>t such productions as serve toheighten our regret for the loss of wha* he might have done. i i ?. !iillil fi!.
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