"Dignification" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... humble, valiant and inoffensive, vertuous and communicable, then by a fond ostentation of riches; or (wanting these Vertues my self) boast that these were in my Ancestors; [And yet I confesse, that where a noble and ancient Descent and such Merits meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person:] and so, if this Antiquitie of Angling (which, for my part, I have not forc'd) shall, like an ancient Familie, by either an honour, or an ornament to this vertuous Art which I both ...
— The Compleat Angler - Facsimile of the First Edition • Izaak Walton |
