Blindness and the Blind: Or, A Treatise on the Science of Typhology |
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... blindness is one of the greatest evils to which the human race is liable , it cannot be out of place to take into consideration the nature of the causes which produce so heavy a cala- mity , and the means best adapted to prevent persons ...
... blindness is one of the greatest evils to which the human race is liable , it cannot be out of place to take into consideration the nature of the causes which produce so heavy a cala- mity , and the means best adapted to prevent persons ...
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... people of those days . In France this evil attracted the atten- tion of the government , and Louis IX . , called St. Louis , in 1260 , founded an institution for the reception of 300 blind persons . The number of inmates gave name to ...
... people of those days . In France this evil attracted the atten- tion of the government , and Louis IX . , called St. Louis , in 1260 , founded an institution for the reception of 300 blind persons . The number of inmates gave name to ...
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... persons suffered from this ma- lady in the Irish workhouses alone . It is ... blind people , of all ages and conditions , who owe their calamity to a ... blindness , THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS . 17.
... persons suffered from this ma- lady in the Irish workhouses alone . It is ... blind people , of all ages and conditions , who owe their calamity to a ... blindness , THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS . 17.
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... blind is not intended to apply to those who lose their sight from improper treatment immediately after birth . These persons , on the contrary , compare very favourably in strength of nerve and general mental power with the most gifted ...
... blind is not intended to apply to those who lose their sight from improper treatment immediately after birth . These persons , on the contrary , compare very favourably in strength of nerve and general mental power with the most gifted ...
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... blind persons were married , both of whom owed their loss of sight to hereditary nervous disease , the probability of their offspring being blind would almost amount to certainty , but as far as can be traced a case of this kind has ...
... blind persons were married , both of whom owed their loss of sight to hereditary nervous disease , the probability of their offspring being blind would almost amount to certainty , but as far as can be traced a case of this kind has ...
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affliction appeared arithmetic asylum attention Belfast Blacklock blind persons Bohemia Braille Bruges carried cause characters Church circumstances common connected death deprived of sight embossed eminent Emperor employed enabled England English Esau establishment eyes father feeling France friends give hand Harrogate Haüy Holman Homer honour Iliad inmates institution invented Isaac Isaac Angelus John John Gower John Milton kind king Knaresborough labours large head placed letters lines lived London lost his sight means ment Metcalf miles Milton mode never obtained organists Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Paris persons without sight poems poet population possessed present prince printed produced pupils reading received relief print remarkable Roman Roman type Samson Agonistes Saunderson says sense sightless small head placed Society soon Street success thee thou tion touch town Valentine Haüy various writing Ziska
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Page 180 - Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 13 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 132 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?
Page 126 - And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Page 130 - There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a "N azarite unto God from my mother's womb : if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Page 159 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 14 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 179 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was this sight To such a tender ball as the...
Page 133 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 132 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay; let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction. What if all foretold Had been fulfilled but through mine own default? Whom have I to complain of but myself, Who this high gift of strength committed to me, In what part lodged, how easily bereft me, Under the seal of silence could not...