 | English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...lately turned at the same time, in the 'same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, flowers, would you 1 " said the gentleman, land surveying and levelling, vocal music, and " Why would... | |
 | Charles Dickens - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...Gradgrind was much obliged. " Mr. M'Choakumchild, we only wait for you." pies, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...of compound proportion, algebra, land surveying and leveling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers. He... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 390 pages
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 488 pages
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 pages
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1868 - 604 pages
...at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He liad been put through an immense variety of paces, and...cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal musie, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 662 pages
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs, He had been put through an immense variety of...Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, iotronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 652 pages
...in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put throngh an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes...of compound proportion, algebra, land surveying and leveling, vocal musie, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers. He... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte . land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten... | |
 | John Swett - Public schools - 1876 - 266 pages
...proof and demonstration. This is fact. This is taste/' In the school of facts, Mr. McChoakum child does the practical work : "He, and some one hundred...models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers. " If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more ! " There... | |
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He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of... 
