 ... me again. And he said, This schoolroom is an immense town, and in it there are a million of inhabitants, and only five-and-twenty are starved to death in the streets, in the course of a year. What is your remark on that proportion ? And my remark...  Hard Times for These Times - Pàgina 70per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 376 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1927 - 396 pàgines
...your remark on that proportion? And my remark was — C\ for I couldn't think of a better one — that I thought it must / be just as hard upon those who...were a million, or a million million. And that was I wrong, too." J " Of course it was." " Then Mr. M'Choakumchild said he would try me once more. And... | |
 | N. Fotion, J.C. Heller - 1997 - 234 pàgines
...your remark on that proportion? And my remark was — for I couldn't think of a better one — that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were...M'Choakumchild said he would try me once more... And 1 find (Mr. M'Choakumchild said) that in a given time a hundred thousand persons went to sea on long... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - 1999 - 196 pàgines
...your remark on that proportion? And my remark was — for I couldn't think of a better one — that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were...million, or a million million. And that was wrong, too'. Clearly Sissy sees 'facts' differently from Mr M'Choakumchild. Dickens contrasts Sissy's early reading... | |
 | Jesper Ryberg, Torbjörn Tännsjö - 2007 - 261 pàgines
...is by improving the situation of those who suffer. In Charles Dickens' Hard Times, Sissy Jupe urges, "it must be just as hard upon those who were starved, whether the others were a million, or a million million."(Dickens (1996, p. 94), Wolf (1996)) Just so. Many of the considerations that make Parfit's... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 185 pàgines
...your remark on that proportion ? And my remark was — for I couldn't think of a better one — that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were...Louisa. " Yes, Miss Louisa — they always remind me of slutterings, and that's another of my mistakes — of accidents upon the sea. And I find (Mr. M'Choakumchild... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1924 - 366 pàgines
...is your remark on that proportion? And my remark was - for I couldn't think of a better one - that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were...once more. And he said, Here are the stutterings-' 136 'Statistics, 1 said Louisa. 'Yes, Miss Louisa - they always remind me of stutterings, and that's... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1875 - 300 pàgines
...proportion ? And my remark was — for I couldn't think of a better one — that I thought it must '« just as hard upon those who were starved, whether...it was." "Then Mr. M'Choakumchild said he would try roe once more. And he said, 1 'ere are the stutterings •" "Statistics," said Louisa. " Yes, Miss... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 502 pàgines
...is your remark on that proportion? And my remark was - for I couldn't think of a better one - that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were starved, whether the others were a million, or 186 a million million. And that was wrong, too. 1 'Of course it was. 1 Then Mr. M'Choakumchild said... | |
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