 | Denis Alexander - Religion - 2003 - 518 pages
...Charles' father was clearly not very impressed by his son's achievements at school, telling him that 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family'. At the age of sixteen Darwin was packed off to Edinburgh to read medicine, but found the lectures dull... | |
 | Jay S Hosler - Juvenile Fiction - 2003 - 164 pages
...convinced that this trip would destroy his son's chance at being well settled. He once told Charles, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and ratcatching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." This probably wasn't fair (and it certainly wasn't an accurate prediction), but Charles did have a... | |
 | R. D. Keynes - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 472 pages
...with Charles for giving up medicine, and told him angrily, and as Charles thought somewhat unjustly, 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching...and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.'22 After careful consideration, Robert decided that the only alternative for which there were... | |
 | H. Y. Sharada Prasad - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 352 pages
...pupil. His father once scolded him saying: 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. 'Another young person who was dismissed as a dunce by his father and was told he 'would never make... | |
 | James C. Davis - History - 2004 - 488 pages
...experiments that his friends had named him "Gas." He also loved to hunt, and his disgusted father told him, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat,catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." He studied medicine in Scotland for a while but didn't like it, so his father decided to transfer him... | |
 | Dallas Murphy - Travel - 2004 - 386 pages
...run up and down the rigging of a ship in sport 2: frolic, sport — Webster's Collegiate Dictionary You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. — Dr. Darwin to his young son Charles i OKCHSHLU, ORUNDELLICO, AND EL'LEPARU had sailed across the... | |
 | Barry Boyce - Nature - 2004 - 334 pages
...Robert Darwin, clearly underwhelmed by young Charles' progress, lashed out at him on one occasion, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and ratcatching,...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Darwin's capacity on the BEAGLE was that of an unpaid observer. At that, he was a second choice for... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 68 pages
...for his education. He was a poor student and in 1825 his father reproached him saying "y°u care f°r nothing but shooting dogs and rat-catching and you...will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family". He was then sent to Edinburgh University to study medicine, but that also was a failure. The lectures... | |
 | Dick Neal - Nature - 2004 - 410 pages
...finally wearing thin. When Charles returned to Shrewsbury to face the music, his father angrily told him 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to you and your family'!1 Charles was suitably chastened and humbled. One can sympathize with his father's... | |
 | Donald DeMarco, Benjamin Wiker - Religion - 2004 - 412 pages
..."You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching," his censorious father thundered at him, "and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family!" ' The cure devised by his physician father was to make Charles into a third-generation physician, and... | |
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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. 
