...up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...stir in a tablespoon lemon juice and 2 ounces fine brandy. Blend well, then pour over pears and serve. "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," is the way Dr. Boteler characterized strawberries as reported by Izaak Walton in The Compleat Angler....

...The Compleat Angler, Oxford, 1915, part 1, chap. 5, p. 120, where William Butler is quoted as saying of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." 1 1 . Jean Francois Marmontel, Memoirs of Marmontel, trans. Brigit Patmore, London, 1930. 56. To HD...

...circumstances will at all commonly permit a consummation of that kind and degree. "Indeed ... we may say ... as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God...made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' " In all the above argument and exposition, touching the executive office and its administrative duties,...

...up in business and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, there we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much...streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better...

...preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on Cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess our selves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams,...Indeed my good Scholar, we may say of Angling, as Dr. Butler said of Strawberries; Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never...

...swallowed up with business, the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. (Walton quoted in Paxman 1995: 16) It is interesting...