| Charles Dickens - 1927 - 396 pągines
...into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical... | |
| Leverett Samuel Lyon, A. Marie Butler - 1927 - 628 pągines
...who was not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication...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... | |
| Niels Nielsen - 1927 - 610 pągines
...tilegnede Carlyle. Mr. Gradgrind har hos sig a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. Gradgrind definerer og analyserer kvaliteter ud i kvantiteter, saa alt liv fordufter af tingene. Han... | |
| John Beck - 1978 - 582 pągines
...talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir - peremptorily Thomas Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical... | |
| Martha C. Nussbaum - 1990 - 434 pągines
...41. See Fragility, chaps. 5. 7. The Phaedrus, I argue, modifies this picture. weigh and measure each parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to") is the only faculty to which education is properly addressed, if we are to build a properly impartial... | |
| Thomas Levenson - 1995 - 358 pągines
...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 pągines
...talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir - peremptorily Thomas Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...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... | |
| Wendell V. Harris - 2010 - 461 pągines
...to find a clear and precise solution for any human problem.16 Mr. Gradgrind, we recall, is prepared "to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to" (48). And his study, later on, is described as a "charmed apartment" in which "the most complicated... | |
| Katherine Kearns - 1996 - 326 pągines
...always ready to sacrifice the happiness and comfort of any one to the general good.' "A° Mr. Gradgrind, "with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, . . . ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to,"... | |
| Robert Bernard Williams - 1997 - 298 pągines
...talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir-peremptorily Thomas-Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. Written in 1854, Hard Times, sought... | |
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