Hard Times - Charles Dickens - Books -  - 9798613264698 - February 24, 2020
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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 square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 24, 2020
ISBN13 9798613264698
Pages 256
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 15 mm   ·   381 g
Language English  

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