...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...

...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...

...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...

...is here made by Sir H. Davy to a paragraph in ' The Complete Angler,' in which Izaak Walton says : " Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said...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." • THE LERNEAN...

...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 of strawberries,...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...

...which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Bnteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...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 'll tell...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...