 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - Страниц: 1010
...allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. _With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weign and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - Страниц: 1108
...Titties, book i. ch. i. pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in Lis pocket, cir, ready ' weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comet to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hop* to get some... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 636
...and two are four, and nothing over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir,— peremptorily Thomas— Thomas Gradgrind With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication...weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell yon exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic." Mr. Gradgrind... | |
 | Robert Peebles Nevin - 1888 - Страниц: 202
...exclusively of 'Facts, sir ; nothing but Facts,' that only they, the figuring few like Gradgrind, ' with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in their pocket,' are willing to undertake their reading. The unciphering many have no relish for that... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - Страниц: 424
...into / allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh a measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1890 - Страниц: 496
...— Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and thc multiplication table always in lus pocket, Sir. ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and loll you exactly \vhat it cornes to. H is a mère question of ligures, a case of simple arilhmetic.... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1893 - Страниц: 488
...for any thinpf over. . . . With a rule end a pair of scales and the multiplication -table at way ч in his pocket, sir. ready to weigh and measure any...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to." Thp f7rn<tyrin>f* undervalue and di*r*irape it, nuil the Ji-MiiU muí tueir evnijMihuiT* are fiirugi-d... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - Страниц: 534
...into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir, — peremptorily Thomas, — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1894 - Страниц: 604
...into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - Страниц: 712
...peremptorily Thomas, Thomas Gradgrind; with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication-table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical... | |
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A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. 
