 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 pages
...preventing or contriving plots — then we sit on cowslip banks — hear the birds sing, & possess ourselves in as much quietness, as these silent silver...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1859 - 342 pages
...contriving plots, then we I '"* .sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our! selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but 'J doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might bejudge, " God , . never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1867 - 490 pages
...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver...quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of An7* gling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - Amusements - 1868 - 358 pages
...is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds .sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
 | Agriculture - 1868 - 468 pages
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1868 - 468 pages
...engaged in a " contemplative man's recreation," quotes one Dr. Boteler as saying of the strawberry, that "doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." This is all very well, as the doctor confined his assertion to the berry fruits and probably had never... | |
 | William Barrows - Adventure and adventurers - 1869 - 292 pages
...we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our. souls in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly...I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, qniet, innocent recreation than Angling." "Let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 586 pages
...praise of the strawberry Dr. Young always thought inimitable, and would cite the passage with go&t : " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as...strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, bxit doubtless God never did.' " But Dr. Young's great book was Boswell's Johnson, which he used to... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1875 - 526 pages
...statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ; Doubtless God could have made a better... | |
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... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much 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, " Doubtless God could have... 
