 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1857 - 864 str.
...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."... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1859 - 342 str.
...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 a better berry, but 'J doubtless God never did ;" and so, if I might bejudge, " God , . never did make a more calm, quiet,... | |
 | Halwin Caldwell - 1860 - 416 str.
...hours," such as these, " even as a shadow that passeth away and returneth not." Of a truth he thinks " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." And remembering an old lover of the sport, Sir Henry Wotton, and the verses, which at seventy years... | |
 | 1863 - 478 str.
...a book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] I IN these flowery meads would be; These crystal streams should solace me; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 str.
...book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that ' ' God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | 1863 - 362 str.
...a book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] I IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 str.
...Poetry, men are to be born so. The Complete Angler. Part i. Ch. 1. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. lUd. Part i. Ch. 5. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth,... | |
 | Alfred Elliott - 1868 - 358 str.
...its condemnation of Angling as a savage pastime, and censorious Dr. Johnson defined an Angler as "a rod, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other."...CATCH, and second, HOW TO CATCH IT. WHAT TO CATCH. ENGLISH FRESH-WATER FISH. 1. THE SALMON (Salmo solar] is one of the largest, and decidedly the most... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1868 - 468 str.
...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... | |
 | 1868 - 468 str.
...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... | |
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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. 
