 ... the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like 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 legs, square shoulders, —...  Hard Times: For These Times ~ Paperbound - Page 2Limited preview - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1866 - 670 pages
...alone are wanted in life. In education, he would plant nothing else, and root out everything else. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts !" His author defines Mr. Gradgrind to be, in his own style, a man of realities ; a man of facts and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...no- I thing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing / else, and root out every thing else. You can only form the minds' of reasoning animals...we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts !" V CHAPTER II. THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man... | |
 | Samuel Couling - Alcoholic beverages - 1855 - 200 pages
...saying, in the language of Thomas Gradgrind in Charles Dickens' Hard Times, " Now what I want, is facts. In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts ! " he has endeavoured to present suet a compendium of the facts and arguments of the case, that cannot... | |
 | John Willis Clark, Joseph William Dunning - Norway - 1857 - 262 pages
...our companionship as much pleasure as we derived from his. CHAPTEE XVIII. HISTORIC O- STATISTICAL. " In this life we want nothing but facts, Sir ; nothing but facts." MB. GRADQRIND. THUS have we told of Norway, and endeavoured to describe, how weakly we are well aware,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 492 pages
...speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, x which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The emphasis...was, — all helped the emphasis. " In this life, we wast nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts!" -N v-fi it.:>--*' -The speaker, and the schoolmaster,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pages
...INTERPRETATION. " Now what I want is Pacts," said Mr. Gradgrind when laying down the principles of instruction. " In this life we want nothing but facts, sir, nothing but facts." To the first proposition we agree fully, we want facts. To the second, that we want nothing but facts,... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - Education - 1861 - 498 pages
...hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square...we want nothing but Facts, Sir, nothing but Facts." Gradgrind was a Teacher with " a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1864 - 514 pages
...trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubbornfact, at is was, — ail helped the emphasis. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, Sir ; nothing but Facts! " Tbe speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, ail backed a Httle, and swept... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1866 - 692 pages
...alone are wanted in life. In education, he would plant nothing else, and root out everything else. " In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts!" His author defines Mr. Gradgrind to be, in his own style, a man of realities ; a man of facts and calculations;... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1868 - 604 pages
...very probably gone on talking to the present time. HARD TIMES. HARD TIMES. BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING. CHAPTER I. THE oNE THING NEEDFUL. "Now, what I want...schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all Kicked a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged... | |
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