 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
 | 1913 - 816 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 406 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,...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,... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 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 s scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1920 - 138 pàgines
...and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over . . . with a rule and pair of scales, and the multiplication table always...and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to. ... He seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - 1924 - 564 pàgines
...proceeded upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who was not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind,...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell exactly what it came to. It was a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. One might... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 1078 pàgines
...not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Qradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas ^|s Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales,...measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly whatTt comes to. It is a mere question "of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to... | |
 | Leverett Samuel Lyon, A. Marie Butler - 1927 - 628 pàgines
...nothing over, and who was not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell exactly what it came to. It was a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. One might... | |
 | Thomas Levenson - 1995 - 358 pàgines
...powerfully as any of its supporters. Thomas Gradgrind, the grim voice of reality in Hard Times, arrives "with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure every parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to." Gradgrind gets his comeuppance... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1995 - 276 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,...and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exacdy what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1996 - 470 pàgines
...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...and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exacdy what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope... | |
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