 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1866 - 670 pages
...talked into allowing for anything over. " 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."* The matter-of-fact man all over, from top to toe, intus et in cute. It would be well, said Mr. J. Stuart... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...pair of scales, and the muliiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure out any parcel of human nature and tell you exactly what it comes to." Now, Mr. Gradgrind has two children only ; he is rich and miserable. We can say no other of Mr. Dickens's... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. Witli 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 - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...into allowing for any thing 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 - 1858 - 490 pages
...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 - 1858 - 488 pages
...talked 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 - 1858 - 492 pages
...into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any iarcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to. t is a mere question of figures, a case... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - Education - 1861 - 498 pages
...throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, — all helped the emphasis. "In this life we want nothing but Facts, Sir, nothing...in his pocket, Sir, ready to weigh and measure any pareel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to." Said the vistor, eloquently discoursing... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - English literature - 1864 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1864 - 514 pages
...into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, Sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas G"radgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication...ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, ^nd tell you exactly what it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.... | |
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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. 
