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... considered likely to be of use to the Blind and their friends , has felt it desir- able to embody the same in the volume now offered to the public . For the last twenty - five years it has been his con- stant practice to make embossed ...
... considered likely to be of use to the Blind and their friends , has felt it desir- able to embody the same in the volume now offered to the public . For the last twenty - five years it has been his con- stant practice to make embossed ...
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... out of the building , but this seems to be considered in the light of an offence , as when they do not live in the house the allowance of a franc and a half a day is considerably reduced . It THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS . 15.
... out of the building , but this seems to be considered in the light of an offence , as when they do not live in the house the allowance of a franc and a half a day is considerably reduced . It THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS . 15.
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... out of the building , but this seems to be considered in the light of an offence , as when they do not live in the house the allowance of a franc and a half a day is considerably reduced . It THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS . 15.
... out of the building , but this seems to be considered in the light of an offence , as when they do not live in the house the allowance of a franc and a half a day is considerably reduced . It THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS . 15.
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... what God has given him , be it little or much , does all in this respect that is required of him . To be really useful is what should be sought , not to gratify personal vanity and be considered a prodigy , but simply to do the will of God.
... what God has given him , be it little or much , does all in this respect that is required of him . To be really useful is what should be sought , not to gratify personal vanity and be considered a prodigy , but simply to do the will of God.
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... receive impressions from the various objects and things by which we are surrounded . The physical , or corporeal senses are usually considered to be the following : -Sight , Hearing , Touch 46 BLINDNESS AND THE BLIND . The Senses.
... receive impressions from the various objects and things by which we are surrounded . The physical , or corporeal senses are usually considered to be the following : -Sight , Hearing , Touch 46 BLINDNESS AND THE BLIND . The Senses.
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affliction appear arithmetic Association for Promoting asylum attention Belgium blind persons Bohemia Braille Braille's Bruges carried caused characters Church circumstances commenced common connected death deprived of sight embossed Emperor employed employment enabled England English Esau establishment exists eyes father France friends give hand Harrogate Haüy Holman honour hundred Illzach inmates institution instruction invented Isaac Angelus James Holman John Milton kind Knaresborough labours large head placed letters lines lived London lost his sight means ment Metcalf Milton mode never number of persons obtained organists Paradise Lost Paris pegs pentagonal persons without sight population possessed present prince produced pupils reading received relief print remarkable Roman Roman type Saunderson says sense sightless small head placed Society soon success thou Timoleon tion total number towns 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...