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 - 1880 - 876 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 - 1883 - 666 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...and sympathies that were never their own, offered up at a. part of a bargain for the security of their " Light 'em up again !" said Mr. Meagles. Little... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1885 - 824 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...very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathiei that were ne/er their own, offered up as a part of a bargain (at the security of their possessions.... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1890 - 516 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 every where — this was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 612 sivua
...measured 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 - 1897 - 632 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 tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain_fpr... | |
| 1923 - 854 sivua
...the human no less than the humane, amounting to 'a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies . . . austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next — nothing graceful or gentle anywhere.' He knew and drew good clergymen. But we almost forget... | |
| Gilbert Ashville Pierce - 1900 - 796 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...gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were nerer their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1906 - 276 sivua
...the heart teaches, guides, and softens in a moment ! OTRICT people as the phrase is, pro*-' fessors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...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... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1912 - 382 sivua
...father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything. . . . Austere faces, inexorable 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... | |
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