 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1866 - 670 páginas
...alone are wanted in life. In education, he would plant nothing else, and root out everything else. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts !" His author defines Mr. Gradgrind to be, in his own style, a man of realities ; a man of facts and... | |
 | 1854 - 634 páginas
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouseroom for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...legs, square shoulders, — nay, his very neckcloth, tramed to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, —... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 302 páginas
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts !" V CHAPTER II. THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 390 páginas
...stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders,—nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat...unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was,—all helped the emphasis. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!"... | |
 | Samuel Couling - 1855 - 200 páginas
...saying, in the language of Thomas Gradgrind in Charles Dickens' Hard Times, " Now what I want, is facts. In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts ! " he has endeavoured to present suet a compendium of the facts and arguments of the case, that cannot... | |
 | John Willis Clark, Joseph William Dunning - 1857 - 262 páginas
...our companionship as much pleasure as we derived from his. CHAPTEE XVIII. HISTORIC O- STATISTICAL. " In this life we want nothing but facts, Sir ; nothing but facts." MB. GRADQRIND. THUS have we told of Norway, and endeavoured to describe, how weakly we are well aware,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 páginas
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts!" The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 492 páginas
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...was, — all helped the emphasis. " In this life, we wast nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts!" -N v-fi it.:>--*' -The speaker, and the schoolmaster,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 488 páginas
...speaker's obstinate carriage, * 206 HARD TIMES. square coat, square legs, square shoulders,—nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat...unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was,—all helped the emphasis. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts!"... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 páginas
...INTERPRETATION. " Now what I want is Pacts," said Mr. Gradgrind when laying down the principles of instruction. " In this life we want nothing but facts, sir, nothing but facts." To the first proposition we agree fully, we want facts. To the second, that we want nothing but facts,... | |
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... for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, — nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, — all... 
