 | 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... | |
 | Sue Jennings - 1999 - 200 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... | |
 | Research & Education Association Editors - 2013 - 220 pàgines
...crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely ware house- 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John O. Jordan - 2001 - 262 pàgines
...softness and comforting animality of "fur." In making his points, Gradgrind is insistence personified: "The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...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... | |
 | 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 but Facts!' The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown up person present, all backed a little, and... | |
 | Kesheng Wang, Ove Rustung Hjelmervik, Bernt Bremdal - 2001 - 354 pàgines
...can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will be of any service to them. In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!" In all endeavours, great or small, grand or insignificant, relevant or irrelevant, facts alone never... | |
 | Arthur Krystal - 2008 - 208 pàgines
..."Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. ... In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts." There, I have just summoned the ghost of two more facts: the author of Hard Times (Charles Dickens)... | |
 | Jessica Riskin - 2002 - 368 pàgines
...forehead"; a mouth that was "wide, thin, and hard"; a voice "inflexible, dry, and dictatorial"; and an "obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders — nay, his very neckcloth [was] trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact." ' But... | |
 | Arthur K. Ellis - 2004 - 179 pàgines
...the crust of a plum pie, as if the head has 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." * What connections, if any, do you see to the current discussion? Back to Bruner for a Minute Jerome... | |
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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... 
