 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But my father, who was the kindest man I ever knew and whose memory I love with all my heart, must... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But my father, who was the kindest man I ever knew and whose memory I love with all my heart, must... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But my father, who was the kindest man I ever knew and whose memory I love with all my heart, must... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But my father, who was the kindest man I ever knew and whose memory I love with all my heart, must... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 742 pages
...little did he realize the true nature of the boy, that he addressed his son with the ominous words : " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and ratcatching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But this was probably spoken in a fit of anger. Charles entertained the warmest feelings of respect... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 462 pages
...became very fond of sporting and shooting as he grew up, and his father once said to him in anger, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Clearly the future great naturalist was not plainly discernible in the youth, though the father was... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - English literature - 1892 - 220 pages
...he passed at Shrewsbury School, that his father one day, to his "deep mortification," said to him: "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." " Nothing," Darwin writes, " could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But my father, who was the kindest man I ever knew, and whose memory I love with all my heart, must... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 pages
...passed at Shrewsbury School, that his father one day, to his " deep mortification," said to him : " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." " Nothing," Darwin writes, " could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 900 pages
...rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." But my father, who was the kindest man I ever knew, and whose memory I love with all my heart, must... | |
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You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. 
