 He had now two boys and two girls ; and he never had more. He was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to his offspring than he did to each of his, as • they reached the age when...  Life of Sir Walter Scott - Page 44by Charles Duke Yonge - 1888 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 828 pages
...girls ; and he never had more. He WAS not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant ; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to...his offspring than he did to each of his, as they suceenively reached the age when they could listen to him and understand his talk. Like their mute... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 426 pages
...Ministrum de Duddingstone prope Edinburgum, nomenque Carolus illi datum." delight in a mere infant ; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to...his, as they successively reached the age when they €ould listen to him, and understand his talk. I^ike their mute playmates, Camp and the greyhounds,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1841 - 300 pages
...precisely what tee wish them to be. [From Lockliart's Life of Walter Scott.] SCOTT IN HIS FAMILY. — No father ever devoted more time and tender care to his offspring than Scott did to each of his, as they successively reached the age when they could listen to him and understand... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...; — and he never had more.* He was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant ; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to his offspring lían he did to each of his, as they successively reached ihe age when they could listen to him and... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...;1 — and he never had more. He was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant ; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to...his offspring than he did to each of his, as they reached the age when they could listen to him, and understand his talk. Like their playmates, Camp... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1850 - 868 pages
...ci — and he never had more.' He was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to...they successively reached the age when they could lUu.*n to him, and understand his talk. Like their mute playmates, Camp and the greyhounds, they had... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...girts ; 1 —and he never had more. He was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to...his offspring than he did to each of his, as they reached the age when they could listen to him, and understand his talk. Like their playmates, Camp... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 344 pages
...rest of the record in Scott's family was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant ; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to...successively reached the age when they could listen tohim, and understand his talk. Like their mute playmates, Camp and the greyhounds, they had at all... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...girls ;* and he never had more. He was not one of those who take much delight in a mere infant; but no father ever devoted more time and tender care to his offspring than he did * Charlotte Sophia, born in October 1799 ; Walter, October 1801 ; Anne, February 1803 ; Charles, December... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 pages
...himself confessed in his diary that he did not like babies, yet to use the words of his son-inlaw : — " No father ever devoted more time and tender care to...did to each of his, as they successively reached the ace when they could listen to him and understand his talk. Like their mute playmates, Camp and the... | |
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