 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1897 - 1148 sivua
...whether it does not in some respects apply to the conditions existing in some of our modern schools: "Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which...peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual apparatus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones too) were common at untimely... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1897 - 1148 sivua
...whether it does not in some respects apply to the conditions existing in some of our modern schools: "Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which...peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual apparatus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones too) were common at untimely... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1897 - 1170 sivua
...whether it does not in some respects apply to the conditions existing in some of our modern schools: "Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which...peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual apparatus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones too) were common at untimely... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1897 - 644 sivua
...gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. a kind of human barrel -organ• with a little list of tunes at which he was continually working•... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1898 - 614 sivua
...the charge of ten young gentlemen, but he had always ready a supply of learning for a hundred, and it was at once the business and delight of his life...Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber made him bear to pattern, somehow... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 434 sivua
...gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his life...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year ground. Mathematical... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce - 1900 - 796 sivua
...gentlemen ; but he had always ready a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his life...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas were produced at Christmas, and Intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1903 - 378 sivua
...the charge of ten young gentlemen, but he had always ready a supply of learning for a hundred, and it was at once the business and delight of his life...Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber made him bear to pattern, somehow... | |
 | William Francis Barry - 1904 - 224 sivua
...Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse in which there was a forcing apparatus constantly at work. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the "year round. Nature was of no consequence at all; no matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Dr. Blimber... | |
 | William Francis Barry - 1904 - 220 sivua
...conducted along the same line as Dr. Blimber's school, described by Dickens in Dombey and Son. "Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse in which there was a forcing apparatus constantly at work. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the... | |
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Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. 
