 | Thomas Levenson - 1995 - 358 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir-peremptorily Thomas-Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. Written in 1854, Hard Times, sought to portray an industrial England with the workers very much under... | |
 | Ronald Reichertz - 2000 - 276 pàgines
...factual education. Grandgrind is described at the beginning of "Murdering the Innocents" as a man "with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to," a man who invariably uses a process that "is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic"... | |
 | Bernard Nesfield-Cookson - 1998 - 388 pàgines
...horse and one over the sickly pale horse, as it were. He is 'a man of facts and calculations . . . Ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature,...question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.' To Gradgrind a horse, for example, is little more than a machine that consists of so and so many parts.... | |
 | Donald Hawes - 1998 - 310 pàgines
...talked into allowing anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir - peremptorily Thomas - Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...Sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human natire, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.'... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey, Dominic Manganiello - 1998 - 150 pàgines
...Dickensian character Thomas Gradgrind, "a man of facts and calculations... with a rule and pair of scales... ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to" (Hard Times, 12). Bacon actually set himself a Promethean task in the preface to De Interpretation... | |
 | Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker - 1998 - 308 pàgines
...for example, conceding that to adopt a single metric of choice is to depart from recall, is prepared 'to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to' (p. 48). And his study, later on, is described as a 'charmed apartment' in which 'the most complicated... | |
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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. 
