Blindness and the Blind: Or, A Treatise on the Science of Typhology |
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... respect . These matters , trivial as they may appear , exert great influence on the well - being of every blind person , as they do much to keep him from being cut off from society , and the sooner good habits are formed , the more ...
... respect . These matters , trivial as they may appear , exert great influence on the well - being of every blind person , as they do much to keep him from being cut off from society , and the sooner good habits are formed , the more ...
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... respect , for Boswell remarks , in his life of Dr. John- son ( fourth edition , vol . iii . page 26 ) , that he ( John- son ) " sometimes incommoded many of his friends by carrying her with him to their houses , where , from her manner ...
... respect , for Boswell remarks , in his life of Dr. John- son ( fourth edition , vol . iii . page 26 ) , that he ( John- son ) " sometimes incommoded many of his friends by carrying her with him to their houses , where , from her manner ...
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... 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.
... 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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... respect to figures of every size and kind . SIGHT AS A HEALTH - GIVER . Sight is not only the principal sense through which information is obtained , it is also a very powerful agent in reinvigorating man after mental and physical ...
... respect to figures of every size and kind . SIGHT AS A HEALTH - GIVER . Sight is not only the principal sense through which information is obtained , it is also a very powerful agent in reinvigorating man after mental and physical ...
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... respect to members of the Circassian race . The soles of the feet are so sensitive that the nature of the ground over which a cultivated blind man walks can be felt through his boots . The tip of the tongue is employed by many females ...
... respect to members of the Circassian race . The soles of the feet are so sensitive that the nature of the ground over which a cultivated blind man walks can be felt through his boots . The tip of the tongue is employed by many females ...
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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...