 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...making me pass an examination, which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...making me pass an examination, •which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...making me pass an examination, which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...making me pass an examination, which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...making me pass an examination, which consisted of ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise, when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...save the King, when thus played, was a sore puzzle." Nevertheless, " from associating with those men and hearing them play, I acquired a strong taste for... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...making me pass an examination, which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1897 - 598 pages
...making me pass an examination, which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...of beating him in one of our musical examinations. \4/ But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so muck-eagerness or gave me so much pleasure... | |
 | Johannes Paulus Lotsy - Botany - 1906 - 424 pages
...making nie pass an cxamination which consisted in ascertaining how many tunes I could recognise, when they were played rather more quickly or slowly than...save the King", when thus played, was a sore puzzle. But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed wtili nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - Ethics - 1906 - 470 pages
...can become more thoroughly engrossed. Darwin 1 tells a story of himself which illustrates this : i " No pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 206 pages
...the rarer plants and animals which were observed. These excursions were delightful. As A COLLECTOR But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect... | |
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But no pursuit at Cambridge was followed with nearly so much eagerness or gave me so much pleasure as collecting beetles. It was the mere passion for collecting, for I did not dissect them, and rarely compared their external characters with published... 
