 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
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1920 - 390 sivua
...unmerciful. Bred in Children — Arthur Clennam thus described his parents and his bringing up : " They were strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 998 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 synv pathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their... | |
 | Mildred Newcomb - 1989 - 263 sivua
...hard father and mother. . . . Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and (.error in the next—nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere— th1s was my childhood, 1f I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life " (bk.... | |
 | Walter Göbel - 2000 - 370 sivua
...priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. [...] 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 my... | |
 | 602 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 - 1874 - 592 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... | |
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