 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 - Стр. 61авторы: James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - Страниц: 319Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - Страниц: 360
...spending twenty summers in China. This middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. * Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion,...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 - 1856 - Страниц: 676
...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - Страниц: 878
...«nd priced every thing: for whom what could oot be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern...sympathies that were never their own, offered up as part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1856 - Страниц: 684
...lights were extinguished before I could sound the words." "Light 'em up again!" said Mr. Mcagles-. never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain...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... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 880
...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...religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies thnt were never their own, offered up as part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1857 - Страниц: 838
...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 - 1857 - Страниц: 746
...lights were extinguished before I could sound the words." " Light 'em up again ! " said Mr. Meagles. of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargnin for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - Страниц: 340
...spending twenty summers in China, This middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. ' Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion,...and the void in my cowed heart everywhere; this was iny childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.' This hideous... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - Страниц: 340
...spending twenty summers in China. This middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. ' Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion,...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... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - Страниц: 368
...spending twenty summers in China. This middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. ' Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion,..."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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