 | 1913 - 816 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music,... | |
 | Thomas Alexander Fyfe - 1913 - 364 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions. ... If he had only learned a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more." —... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1914 - 548 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and fi3d answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography,... | |
 | Cumberland Clark - 1926 - 120 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces and had answered volumes of head breaking questions. . . . He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty's Privy Council's Schedule... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1927 - 396 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | John Beck - 1978 - 582 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | Ken Osborne - 1991 - 214 pàgines
...He had been put 125 through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of heart-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody,...proportion, algebra, land surveying and levelling, social music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers. He knew all... | |
 | Colin Richards - 1999 - 162 pàgines
...had heen tumed out at the same time, in the same factory, like so many pianoforte legs. He had heen put through an immense variety of paces and had answered volumes of head-hreaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody, hiography, astronomy, geography... | |
 | James L. Hughes - 2001 - 340 pàgines
...lately turned at the same time, in the sатe factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumen of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy,... | |
 | Heidi Stillman - 2003 - 166 pàgines
...MR. M'CHOAKUMCHILD: Thank you, Mr. Gradgrind, sir! We will be learning French, German, Latin, Greek, orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody, biography,...compound proportion, algebra, land surveying, and leveling . . . [As the list drones on ("addition, subtraction, multiplication, diviSISSY: sion . .... | |
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He, and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of... 
