 | 1920 - 968 pages
...— " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Mgline, as Dr. Uoteler said of strawberries, 'DouLtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ' : and so, if I might !*• jiidfre, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.'' That Williams... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 pages
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler* said of strawberries, " doubtless God could have "...calm, quiet, innocent recreation, " than angling." I'll tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | George Philip Rigney Pulman - 1851 - 242 pages
...FLY-FISHING, &c. &c. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. " My good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." — IZAAC WAXTON. GLORIOUS old Izaac ! What delightful thoughts — what poetical imaginings — the... | |
 | 1853 - 380 pages
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.' " " When I would beget content and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
...the great vulgar," is become a part of the English phraseology. — Hurd. THE STRAWBERRY. Dr. Butler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." A HABITUAL BORE. Lord Chesterton we have often met with, and suffered a good deal from his lordship... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1854 - 348 pages
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling." I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 pages
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling—as Dr. Boteler 1 said, of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made...calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.'' and you shall choose which shall be yours ; and it is an even lay, one of them catches. I'll tell you,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 634 pages
...now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling — as Dr. Boteler' said, of -strawberries, "Doubtless God could have...make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than I'll tell you, scholar ! when I sat last on this primrosebank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 694 pages
...silver streams which we now see glide во quietly by us." Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless GOD could have...berry, but doubtless GOD never did,' and so, (if I may judge,) GOD did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. How sad it is... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 pages
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed my honest scholar we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries — "Doubtless God could have...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so I say, (if I may be judge,) God never did make amore calm, quiet, innocent, recreation than angling."... | |
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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 than angling. 
