 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. Thomas Gradgrind, sir - peremptorily Thomas...  Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty - Pàgina 206per Charles Dickens - 1858Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pàgines
...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. Thomas Gradgrind,...peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a 1 Hard Times, book i. ch. i. pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir,... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pàgines
...that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for any thing over ; Thomas Gradgrind, sir, — peremptorily Thomas,...Gradgrind; with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication-table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 pàgines
...sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a 1 Hard Times, book i. ch. i j-air of scales, and the multiplication table always in...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell yon exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 pàgines
...allowing for anything Over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. \Yith a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pncket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 842 pàgines
...that two and two are four, and 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 and a pair of scales, *nd the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to .veigh and measure any parcel of human... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 1010 pàgines
...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. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. _With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pàgines
...Titties, book i. ch. i. pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in Lis pocket, cir, ready ' weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comet to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hop* to get some... | |
 | 1886 - 636 pàgines
...facts and calculations A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir,— peremptorily Thomas—...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell yon exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic." Mr. Gradgrind... | |
 | Robert Peebles Nevin - 1888 - 202 pàgines
...consist, all, so exclusively of 'Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts,' that only they, the figuring few like Gradgrind, ' with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in their pocket,' are willing to undertake their reading. The unciphering many have no relish for that... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - 424 pàgines
...who ceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into / allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind,...multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh a measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question... | |
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