 THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four^ and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.  Hard Times for These Times - Pàgina 6per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 376 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 868 pàgines
...into them until they were full to the brim. CHAPTER II. MURDERING THE INNOCENTS. THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations....principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and wha is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pàgines
...bravery. Gradgrind, Thomas, in DICKENS' s novel of Sard Time» (qv), is "a man of realities; a man t'i' facts and calculations ; a man who proceeds upon the...nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing anything over." Graduate Of Oxford, A. The name under which JOHN RUSKIN originally published his Modern... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 pàgines
...gear for an honr.—Hard Times, Book I., Chap. II. FACTS- Gradt?rind tile man of. Thomas Gradgrind, E—The fas Thomas —Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 pàgines
...ready to have gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. 3. Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations....over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for any thing over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir, with a rule and pair of scales, and the multiplication table... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pàgines
...ready to have gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. 3. Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations....over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for any thing over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir, with a rule and pair of scales, and the multiplication table... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 504 pàgines
...ready to have gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. 3. Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations....over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for any thing over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir, with a rule and pair of scales, and the multiplication table... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 842 pàgines
...until they were full to the brim. CHAPTER II. Murdering the Innocents. JHOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man cf realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man...nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing ror any thing over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 868 pàgines
...until they were full to the brim. CHAPTER II. MURDERING THE INNOCENTS. <?..'<'•" , THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations....into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pàgines
...imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.1 ' " THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir ! A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations....not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomai Gradgrind, «ir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule andt 1 Hard Titties,... | |
 | 1879 - 734 pàgines
...to impart. ; Some like Thomas Gradgrind — men of realities, of facts and calculations, who proceed upon the principle that two and two are four and nothing over, are for the practical school, a school where facts and facts alone are the one thing needful and nothing... | |
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