 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 helped the emphasis. 'In this life, we want...  The New Education: A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day - Pàgina 22per Scott Nearing - 1915 - 264 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1866 - 670 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...throat with an 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 ! " The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 390 pàgines
...throat with an 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!" The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 302 pàgines
...throat with an 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 !" V CHAPTER II. THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man... | |
 | Samuel Couling - 1855 - 200 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 488 pàgines
...throat with an 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!" The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 pàgines
...throat with an 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!" The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - 1861 - 498 pàgines
...throat with an 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." Gradgrind was a Teacher with " a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in... | |
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