 In this life, we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts." The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present all backed a 111 tic, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order,...  Hard Times: For These Times - Pàgina 6per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 352 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1883
...fit only for women, and children; men who are forever crying, in the language of Dickens' Gradgrind, "In this life we want nothing but facts, sir, nothing but facts;" men whose imaginations, the wings of the soul, have become soheavy with the mud of the material things... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882
...trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was — all borne aloft into the azure of Eternity. Love not Pleasure; love God.' lint Fact-: " The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the Ihird grown person prc-cnt, all backed a little,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885
...throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, *i 't was — all helped the emphasis. 1 " In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts I " * The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and... | |
 | Caroline Bigelow Le Row - 1888 - 214 pàgines
...consequence unless it can be proved to be "practical," believing as they do with Mr. Gradgrind that " in this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts." Proper drill in phonetics, or the physiology of rowels and consonants, is practical because it combines... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1890
...by thé throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a slubborn fact, at is was, — ail helped thé emphasis. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, Sir; nothing but Facts! " The speaker, and thé schoolmaster, and thé third grown person présent, ail backed a little, and swept wilh Iheir... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 420 pàgines
...my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir. In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir ! nothing but Facts." 2. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present all backed a little and swept... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895
...my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir. In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir ! nothing but Facts." 2. The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present all backed a little and swept... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 510 pàgines
..." (Egad, we're) in the wrong box." CAREY. Chrononhotonthologos (Rigdumfunidos), Act I., Sc. III. " In this life we want nothing but facts, Sir ; nothing but facts." C. DICKENS. Hard Times (Gradgrind), Ck. I. " In time we hate that which we often fear." SHAKESPEARE.... | |
 | 1900
...the public school is today far enough from Pestalozzi's ideal. The Gradgrind theory of education — "In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts" — is all-triumphant. "Unorganized facts," Herbert Spencer calls them, or facts from which no generalizations... | |
 | Kate Dickinson Sweetser - 1902 - 236 pàgines
...trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, — all helped the emphasis. "In this life, we want nothing...but Facts, sir! Nothing but Facts ! " The speaker, Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, and the schoolmaster, Mr. M'Choakumchild, and the third grown person present,... | |
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