 | James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 356 pàgines
...interest, and explains how, after destroying it, teachers try to galvanize it into spasmodic activity. " Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely...don't know that girl. Who is that girl? " " Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. " Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia." " It's father... | |
 | James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 342 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...young imaginations that were to be stormed away." In the last sentence Dickens reveals the true philosophy of sustaining and developing natural and therefore... | |
 | James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 344 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that wereTlo be stonneE away." In" the last sentence Dickens reveals the true philosophy of sustaining and... | |
 | Kate Dickinson Sweetser - 1902 - 296 pàgines
...order, ready to have imperial gallons of Facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. " Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely...curtseying. " Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. " Call yourself Cecilia." " It's father as calls me Sissy, sir," returned the young girl with another... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 pàgines
...to the brim. "'Girl number twenty,' said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square finger. ' I don't know that girl. Who is that girl ? ' ' ' Sissy Jupe, sir,' exclaimed No. 20, blushing, standing up, and curtseying. " ' Sissy is not a name,' said Mr. Gradgrind.... | |
 | 1912 - 414 pàgines
...Gradgrind — no, sir i" Indeed, he seemed to be a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts. " Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtsying. " Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. " Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia."... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. 25 "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with his square forefinger, "I don't... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 450 pàgines
...kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts. "Girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely i pointing with his square forefinger. "I don't know...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtsying. "Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. " Don't r0 call yourself Sissy. Call yourself... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1925 - 298 pàgines
...very much upset when the great man pointed his square finger at her and said : "Girl number twenty. I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?" "Sissy...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying. [103] "Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 1078 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and courtesying. "Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia."... | |
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Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus,... 
