 | Charles Dickens - 1924 - 366 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, 18 land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 185 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...and had answered volumes of headbreaking questions. Ah, rather overdone, Mr. M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1965 - 302 pàgines
...astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, landsurveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers. He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council's Schedule B, and had... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 502 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had 23 answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography,... | |
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He, and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of... 
