 | Heidi Stillman - 2003 - 166 pàgines
...calculations. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, children, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts, Mr. M'Choakum child! MR. M'CHOAKUMCHILD:... | |
 | George Baird - 1995 - 428 pàgines
...calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over. . . . With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always readv in his pocket . . . ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly... | |
 | Leonie Sandercock, Peter Lyssiotis - 2003 - 292 pàgines
...the obsession with factfinding and calculative power, a man always 'ready to weigh and measure each parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to' (Nussbaum, 1990: 77). By the time Dickens was writing, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the... | |
 | John P. Bequette - 2004 - 184 pàgines
...positivism in all its harshness. He is "a man of realities. A man of facts and calculations." who is "ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to."4Thomas Gradgrind makes it his pedagogical mission to eradicate any trace of romanticism or creativity... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 1354 pàgines
...deaf to the call of time. And he Thomas Gradgrind, sir - peremptorily Thomas - Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...hope to get some other nonsensical belief into the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind, or John Gradgrind, or Joseph Gradgrind (all suppositious,... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 2005 - 222 pàgines
...two are four, and nothing over." He always has in his pocket "a rule and a pair of scales," ready "to measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly...question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic." Mr. Gradgrind even reduces the students to numbers rather than treating them as individuals. Thus he... | |
 | Morris Dickstein - 2005 - 316 pàgines
...appears as the arch-calculator, the modem equivalent of Mr. Gradgrind, Dickens's "man of facts," who is "ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to." But by the end Posner emerges as the model jurist, whose subtly written opinion in a sexual harassment... | |
 | Gerald Van Koeverden - 2005 - 235 pàgines
...and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts. "...With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his [Gradgrind's] pocket, sir, to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - 2006 - 210 pàgines
...are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. . . . With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.30 Or, as the much later Adorno and Horkheimer have it in their devastating critique of a crude... | |
 | Tim Butler, Paul Watt - 2007 - 236 pàgines
...With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, Sir, ready to measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly...question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. (Dickens, 1994 [1854]: 1-2) An alternative reading of course, might argue that this led to a century... | |
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With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. 
