 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - England - 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,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - England - 1887 - 372 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,... | |
 | William Henry Harrison Murray - Banff (Alta.) - 1888 - 352 pages
...said, — " Dynamite ! Gad! dynamite is n't so bad, after all!" • CHAPTER IV. THE BIG NEPIGON TROUT. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries:...but doubtless God never did.'' And so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ISAAK WALTON. CIVILIZATION... | |
 | W.H.H. MURRAY - 1888 - 422 pages
...said, — " Dynamite ! Gad ! dynamite is n't so bad, after all ! " CHAPTER IV. THE BIG NEPIGON TROUT. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries:...berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if I might judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ISAAK WALTON. CIVILIZATION... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Calendars - 1889 - 124 pages
...Waterloo, 1815. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then ; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Birthday books - 1889 - 482 pages
...1813. I87 At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then ; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 452 pages
...Professor Gray. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then; and they mark pretty... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1891 - 454 pages
...Professor Gray. At last come the strawberries, of which Walton quotes from Dr. Boteler the famous saying, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." When they have ripened in our own gardens, summer has begun, hardly till then ; and they mark pretty... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...not ignore — the cultivated strawberry, of which Dr. Boteler (as quoted by Izaak Walton) said, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' 685. thou best anana. The pine-apple, most delicious of all fruits. It is indigenous to tropical America.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1892 - 300 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...strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, 1 These verses were written at or near the time when the Liturgy was abolished by an ordinance of Parliament;... | |
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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... 
