Hard Times
‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!’ The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker’s square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster’s sleeve. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker’s obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders,―nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was,―all helped the emphasis. ‘In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!’ The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim…"
Yazar | Charles Dickens |
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Yayın Evi | Gece Kitaplığı; 1. basım |
tarafından gönderildi | 1 Ocak 2015 |
KOMİSYON Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 18 Haziran 2018 John Wiley & Sons Inc 1 Ocak 2018 Charles Dickens Forgotten Books 4 Ocak 2017 5 Ocak 2017 Cambridge University Press Springer Springer 3 Ocak 2017 Adalet Yayınevi Kollektif Kolektif Varios Autores 1 Ocak 2015
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Baskı Detayları
Yazar | Charles Dickens |
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İsbn 10 | 6053242241 |
İsbn 13 | 978-6053242246 |
Sayfa sayısı | 375 sayfa |
Yayın Evi | Gece Kitaplığı; 1. basım |
Dil | Türkçe |
tarafından gönderildi Hard Times | 1 Ocak 2015 |