 Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr Boteler * said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation...  The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a ... - Сторінка 107автори: Izaak Walton - 1875 - 320 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1871 - 726 стор.
...At the commencement dinner, in 1869, Mr. Samuel Burnham, of Boston, said that Dr. Boteler remarked of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." And when Mr. Burnham applied the illustration to the President, the company accepted its fitness by their... | |
 | Charles Shearer Keyser - 1872 - 186 стор.
...or contriving plots, then he possesses himself in quietness;" and it is truly said of angling, what Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if we maybe judges, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling, nor, it may... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - 254 стор.
...strawberries. The strawberry is, for a child, the king of fruits. I)r Boteler once quaintly said of it, that " doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," — meaning thereby that the strawberry is, as a fruit, as near perfection as anything in this world... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - 706 стор.
...Fuller, one from DeMandeville, and another quoting Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, where it is written " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as...made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Win. Butler, a celebrated but eccentric physician, born at Ipswich about 1535.... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - 638 стор.
...one from DeMandeville, and another quoting Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, where it is written •* Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bnt doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Wm. Butler, a celebrated but ewentric phybician,... | |
 | Frederick Davis (of Luton.) - 1874 - 176 стор.
...silver streams which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed my good scholar, we may say of anglers, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries — ' doubtless...berry, but, doubtless God never did ' ; and so (if 1 might judge) God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling ! " The river... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 646 стор.
...Thymallus. j ' Compleat Angler,' Part I. cap. vi. § Ibid. Part I. cap. v. Vol. 139.— No. 278. 2 A glide glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but God never did ; " and so (if I might be judge), " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 612 стор.
...allusion to his generic name, ThymaUut. j ' Compleat Angler,' Part I. cap. vi. § Ibid. Part I. cap. v. glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we...Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could havo made a better berry, but God never did ; " and so (if I might bo judge), " God never did make... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 стор.
...briefly. It was in this speech that the poet Pierpont applied to Kansas the saying, of Dr. Boteler of strawberries: " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." MAY 27. — Gov. Walker reaches Lecompton, via Lawrence, and issues his Inaugural Address. It was a... | |
 | George Dawson - 1876 - 314 стор.
...of crystal waters, with no other companions than rod and reel, singing birds and slimmer zephyrs. " As Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God...berry, but doubtless God never did;' and so, if I may be judge, God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than Angling." But it would... | |
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