Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " 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... The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse ... - الصفحة 104بواسطة Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 383عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Izaak Walton - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good Scholar, we may say of An7* gling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God could have...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than Angling." I '11 tell you, Scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...Poetry, men are to be born so. Part i. CA. i. Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Part L Ck. 4. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler1 said of strawberries...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Parti. CA. 5. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out... | |
| Alfred Elliott - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...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...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.' " We shall reverse the ordinary method of writers upon Angling, and teach our readers, first, WHAT... | |
| Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...are to be •**• born sO. The Complete Angler. Part \.Ch.i. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : ' Doubtless God could have...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Iud. Part i. Ch. i. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth,... | |
| William Barrows - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...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...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... | |
| Charles Hindley - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...are somewhat like poets — men are to be born so. And I believe with old Izaak, who has said, ' ' God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." May every sport prove as innocent as that of the field. May our hounds, horses, and hearts never fail... | |
| عدد الصفحات: 708
...ever. (tt be continued). " THE COMPLETE ANGLER." XNGRAVKD BY J. SCOTT, FROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, RA I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose-bank, and looked down these meadow*, 1 thought of them ns Charles (he Hinperor did of the cily of Florence: "Thai they were loo... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...of the District Court of tile District of MassachusctU. Btill held, with quaint Izaak Walton, that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." And the hours of his relief from heavy labor were often spent with the brooks that run among the mountains,... | |
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