 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 - 1890
...Iwo and l\\o are four, and nolhing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anylhing ovcr. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir — peremptorily Thomas —...Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and thc multiplication table always in lus pocket, Sir. ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894
...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,...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,... | |
 | Iowa State Medical Society - 1894
...will remember that he resolved all matters to a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table always in his pocket, he was ever ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes... | |
 | 1894
...the true Yankee would put it "possessed" to fit this system to the child. What was it Dickens said ? "With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table (in gymnastic nomenclature synonymous with progression) always in his pocket, Sir, ready to weigh and... | |
 | 1896
...true Yankee would put it, " possessed," to fit this system to the child. What was it Dickens said ? " With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table [in gymnastic nomenclature synonymous with progression] always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and... | |
 | Louis François Cazamian - 1904 - 575 pàgines
...proceeds upon thé principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind,...Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and thé multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigli and measuri' any parcel of hurnan... | |
 | Louis François Cazamian - 1904 - 575 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,...Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of seales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel... | |
 | Louis François Cazamian - 1904 - 575 pàgines
...peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of seales, and the multiplieation table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell y ou exactly whal it comcs to. » (Livre I, chap. n). (3) Martin Chuzzlewit. tortueuse à voler la... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865
...who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir ; peremptorily Thomas. is easy enough," might be his reflection, " to make...to invoke with passionate clamor the silent heaven out any parcel of human nature and tell you exactly what it comes to." Now, Mr. Gradgrind has two children... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1913
...lived in a square house. Two and two, he would assert, make four, with nothing left over. He went about "with a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table always in his pocket, ready to measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to." With him "it was... | |
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