 | Bristol Naturalists' Society (Avon) - Natural history - 1914 - 752 pages
...talks with raptureof his first snipe. His father once said to him (Life and Letters, p. 32, Chap II.) "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." He little realized that this was the strong appeal of instincts which would lead him on to assured... | |
 | University of Edinburgh. Students' Representative Council - Great Britain - 1914 - 254 pages
...Darwin became, was certainly not precocious. His father ("the kindest man I ever knew ")once said, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and ratcatching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Let us take courage! Nor as a student was he brilliant, for as far as academical studies were concerned... | |
 | Henry Addington Bruce - Child development - 1915 - 312 pages
...handicapped by adenoids, eye trouble, etc. [180] his days roaming through the fields, gun in hand. " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and ratcatching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family," was his father's bitter reproof. As he grew older, his propensity for idling seemed only to increase.... | |
 | 1915 - 510 pages
...EDITORI ALETTES. "YOU WILL BE A DISGRACE TO YOUR FAMILY." "You care for nothing but shooting, clogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Thus did a father once address his son. That son was Charles Darwin. Which shows that fathers do not... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 238 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 ratcatching,...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... | |
 | Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg - Child rearing - 1916 - 344 pages
...ignorant. But he tells us further that he was greatly mortified when his father once said to him, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Now Darwin's father was not an ignorant man, and he was not unsympathetic ; but his imagination was... | |
 | Louis Berman - Endocrine glands - 1921 - 296 pages
...learned and confining a profession and had to be reproached by his father in these immortal words: "You care for nothing but shooting dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Cambridge came after Edinburgh, as he was rushed from medicine into the clergy. But in vain. A friendship... | |
 | Leonard Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1921 - 144 pages
...career at Shrewsbury was a failure, and in a moment of irritation Dr. Darwin once exclaimed to him: " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." " But my father," Charles Darwin continues, "who was the kindest man I ever knew, and whose memory... | |
 | Floyd Lavern Darrow - Inventors - 1923 - 384 pages
...below the common standard of intellect." In a moment of impatience, his father once said to him, " You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." While still at Dr. Butler's school he became interested in chemistry and together with his brother... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Scientists - 1926 - 384 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. 
