 Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service...  The Speaker - 152 psl.1907Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1866 - 670 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 820 psl.
...out everything else. YOU can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts ; nothing else will be of any service to them. This is the principle on...bring up my own children, and this is the principle on 1 Old Curiosity Shop, vol. i. pp. 245, 6. which I bring up these children. . Stick to Facts, sir.'... | |
 | 1854 - 634 psl.
...else, and root out everything else. You can only form the piinds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them....principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facta, sir ! " The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vanlt of a school-room, and the speaker's square... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 302 psl.
...else, and root out every thing else. You can only form the minds' of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them....which I bring up these.! children. Stick to Facts, sir !" , The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 390 psl.
...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 but Facts!" The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with... | |
 | Samuel Couling - 1855 - 200 psl.
...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 - 1857 - 262 psl.
...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 - 488 psl.
...nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them....which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!" The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a schoolroom, and the speaker's square forefinger... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 psl.
...nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them....which I bring up my own children, and this is the prinjjiple on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir ! " The scene was a plain, bare,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 psl.
...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,... | |
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