 | Andrew Wilson - Evidence - 1883 - 444 pages
...in the Strawberries (Fig. 68), which secured the full admiration of Dr. Boteler, who declared that " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"— a remark the correctness of which will probably be viewed proportionately by the individual minds and... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...praises of their occupation : " No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the much quietness as these silent silver streams which...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Bnteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1884 - 468 pages
...appreciated by our forefathers we have a strong proof in old Isaak Walton's glowing words : "Indeed, my scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said...made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; so if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling " We... | |
 | James McQuade - Bermuda Islands - 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 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... | |
 | John Harrington Keene - Fishing tackle - 1886 - 268 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...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Botcler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Home economics - 1887 - 356 pages
...strawberries, a writer on small fruits adds to the oft-quoted saying of good old Doctor Boteler : ( " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did,") "Possibly man could have done more to deteriorate from (he native excellence of the berry as God made... | |
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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... 
