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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. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 163
publié par - 1856
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The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida

James McQuade - 1884 - 572 pages
...cultivated, but it is not ; which is a pity. Good old Dr. Boteler said, a couple of hundred years ago, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry ; but doubtless God never did." I would rather have the apple orchards of our Clinton hills than all the fruit-trees in Bermuda. We...
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Essays in translation and other contributions, repr. from the 'Journ. of ...

Essays - 1885 - 250 pages
...ale, was alway after oon. (g.) I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. (h.) Care killed a cat. (z.) Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. (k.) Ungrateful Florence ! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore. (/.) Dreary...
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Essays in Translation: And Other Contributions

1885 - 226 pages
...ale, was alway after oon. (g.) I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. (h.) Care killed a cat. (z.) Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. (k.) Ungrateful Florence ! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore. (/.) Dreary...
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Essays in Translation: And Other Contributions

1885 - 224 pages
...ale, was alway after oon. (g.) I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. (h.) Care killed a cat. (t.) Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. (k.) Ungrateful Florence ! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore. (/.) Dreary...
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Neighbors with Wings and Fins, and Some Others: For Young People

James Johonnot - 1886 - 244 pages
...quietness as these silent, silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries...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." 4. With this...
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Genius in Sunshine and Shadow

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - 328 pages
...summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost." Walton puts himself on record in these words : " We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries...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." Sydney Smith...
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Fishing Tackle, Its Material and Manufacture: A Practical Guide ...

John Harrington Keene - 1886 - 268 pages
...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Botcler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless God could have...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." I will call...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 70

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1921 - 932 pages
...soul in gladness and singleness of heart. "Indeed, my good scholar," he exclaims on one such occasion, "we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries,...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." Many of Walton's...
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A Club of One: Passages from the Note-book of a Man who Might Have Been Sociable

Addison Peale Russell - 1887 - 272 pages
...purposes. Exceptions he creates or Exception, permits for encouragement or example. The old English divine said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Doubtless God could have permitted a greater nuisance than attempts at music, but doubtless God never...
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Our Hundred Days in Europe

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 342 pages
...shows itself among the bridal gifts, many of us exclaim for the hundredth time with Dr. Boteler, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." Nature, who is God's handmaid, does not attempt a rival berry. But by and by a little woolly knob,...
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