 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 - Pągina 206per Charles Dickens - 1858Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John J. Joughin, Simon Malpas - 2003 - 242 pągines
...and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over . . . With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.2 Or, as the much later Adorno and Horkheimer have it in their devastating critique of a crude 'Enlightenment',... | |
 | George Baird - 2003 - 409 pągines
...calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over. . . . With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always readv in his pocket . . . ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly... | |
 | John P. Bequette - 2004 - 162 pągines
...positivism in all its harshness. He is "a man of realities. A man of facts and calculations." who is "ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to."4Thomas Gradgrind makes it his pedagogical mission to eradicate any trace of romanticism or creativity... | |
 | Gerald Van Koeverden - 2005 - 236 pągines
...nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts. "...With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his [Gradgrind's] pocket, sir, to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - 2006 - 185 pągines
...two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. . . . With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.30 Or, as the much later Adorno and Horkheimer have it in their devastating critique of a crude... | |
 | Tim Butler, Paul Watt - 2007 - 222 pągines
...who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind,...multiplication table always in his pocket, Sir, ready to measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1874
...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,...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell yorr exactly what it" comes to. It is ft mere^ueTtitm of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1875
...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,...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and telZ you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You... | |
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