 | Jean Jacques Weber - 1992 - 200 pàgines
...form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them — In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts! (47)" The nominalizing tendency of this authoritarian discourse (evidenced by the repeated use of "... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1995 - 276 pàgines
...obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, - nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating...schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a litde, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1996 - 470 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...schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a litde, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little 1. See the General Introduction p. 21.... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2018 - 438 pàgines
...alone are wanted in life. Dickens, Charles The Work of Charles Dickens Hard Times Book I, Chapter I In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir, nothing but Facts. Dickens, Charles The Work of Charles Dickens Hard Times Book I, Chapter 1 The labors of others have... | |
 | Wendell V. Harris - 2010 - 461 pàgines
...ends the novel by expressing remorse, and revealing, in the process, a certain human complexity. " 'In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts' " (47). This famous demand, announced in the Gradgrind schoolroom in the opening chapter of the novel... | |
 | Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker - 1998 - 308 pàgines
...(Cambridge, 1988). 7 See Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Contingencies of Value (Cambridge, Mass., 1988). ' "In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts" ' (p. 47). This famous demand, announced in the Gradgrind schoolroom in the opening chapter of the... | |
 | Joan Detz - 2000 - 244 pàgines
...speaker who said "in conclusion" three times. It wasn'ta pretty sight. How to Do Terrific Research "In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir, nothing but Facts." — CHARLES DICKENS Research. The word alone turns off many people. In fact, doing research often ranks... | |
 | Michael Rustin - 2001 - 260 pàgines
...the children. Moral dispositions, it seems to be believed, can and should be transmitted in this way: 'In this life, we want nothing but Facts, Sir; nothing...speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown up person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels... | |
 | John O. Jordan - 2001 - 262 pàgines
...speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders - nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating...stubborn fact, as it was - all helped the emphasis" (1). In such a grinding-in of the point about Gradgrind, we have moved well beyond the habitual Dickensian... | |
 | James L. Hughes - 2001 - 340 pàgines
...infiexible, dry, and dictatorial. "In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but {acts." The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown...present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyea the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial... | |
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... warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders — nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it... 
