Ah! Easily said. I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase... Dickens as an Educator - Sivu 61tekijä(t) James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 319 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Charles Dickens - 1865 - 526 sivua
...and priced everything : for whom what could not be weighed, measured and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern...discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next — nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere — this was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1867 - 550 sivua
...and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern...penance in this world and terror in the next—nothing gracef :1 or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere—this was my childhood, if... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1867 - 554 sivua
...and priced everything ; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern...discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next — nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere — this was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 578 sivua
...and priced everything ; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern...discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next — nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere — this was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1869 - 1248 sivua
...and priced everything : for whom what could not be weighed, measured and priced, had no existence. Strict people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern...religion, their very religion 'was a gloomy sacrifice of t4istes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security... | |
| Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 sivua
...every thing; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict peeple, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion,...of tastes and sympathies that were never their own. oflered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 360 sivua
...and priced every thing: for whom what could not "be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern...or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere—this was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 sivua
...weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people, as the phrase is, professors of a stem x . next — nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere — this was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 550 sivua
...and priced everything ; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as' the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very rrligion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1880 - 842 sivua
...and priced everything : for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern...gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were ne 'er their own, offered up as a -urt of a bargaia (at the security of their possessions. Austere... | |
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