 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 - Page 1521907Full view - 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... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...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.'... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...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 - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...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 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 but Facts!" The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with... | |
 | 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 - 488 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 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,... | |
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