 | Iowa State Medical Society - 1894 - 252 páginas
...will remember that he resolved all matters to a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table always in his pocket, he was ever ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes... | |
 | 1894 - 1278 páginas
...the true Yankee would put it "possessed" to fit this system to the child. What was it Dickens said ? "With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table (in gymnastic nomenclature synonymous with progression) always in his pocket, Sir, ready to weigh and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1895 - 708 páginas
...into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gnwlgrind, 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 arithmetie. You might hope to get some other nonsensical... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 452 páginas
...nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir ! with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. 4. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 450 páginas
...nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir ! with a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. 4. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other... | |
 | 1896 - 1118 páginas
...true Yankee would put it, " possessed," to fit this system to the child. What was it Dickens said ? " With a rule and a pair of scales and the multiplication table [in gymnastic nomenclature synonymous with progression] always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 492 páginas
...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 - 1898 - 508 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 342 páginas
...statistics, and that " with his rule, and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table, he could weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to." M'Choakumchild's preparation for the work of stimulating young life to larger, richer growth. He and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1904 - 674 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
