 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 400 pàgines
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts! " The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1900 - 490 pàgines
...the crust of a plum-pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as h was — all helped the emphasis. " ' In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!"... | |
 | James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 344 pàgines
...set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. " 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 little, and swept... | |
 | 1900 - 500 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 490 pàgines
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...stubborn fact as it was — all helped the emphasis. DlCKENs. .. Hard Times." Ex. 2. Lady Susan is, as everybody knows by referring to the "British Bible,"... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 488 pàgines
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact as it was _ all helped the emphasis. DlCKEH8 , „ j^rd Times . „ Ex. 2. Lady Susan is, as everybody knows... | |
 | Kate Dickinson Sweetser - 1902 - 296 pàgines
...skirts of his bald head, as if the head had scarcely warehouse room for the hard facts stowed inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...we want nothing but Facts, sir! Nothing but Facts ! " The speaker, Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, and the schoolmaster, Mr. M'Choakumchild, and the third grown... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Mrs. Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 460 pàgines
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...life we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts!8 The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little,... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1902 - 222 pàgines
...form an important element in the balanced development of every mind. Anything but Thomas Gradgrind's : "In this life we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts !" And Dickens graphically shows some results of that system. But in allowing or teaching children... | |
 | S. E. H. Lockwood - 1903 - 488 pàgines
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact as it was-all helped the emphasis. DlCKENS, „Hard Times." Ex. 2. Lady Susan is, as everybody knows by referring... | |
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... 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 was, — all... 
