Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... lady's boudoir ; by touch he sees any curiosity , such as a lamp from the Pyramids , or a scrap of mineral , which you describe to him , and which , having once handled , he always speaks of as having been seen . He thinks he can read a ...
... lady's boudoir ; by touch he sees any curiosity , such as a lamp from the Pyramids , or a scrap of mineral , which you describe to him , and which , having once handled , he always speaks of as having been seen . He thinks he can read a ...
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... lady herself blind , who to the last years of his extreme old age was among the dearest of his friends . He amused himself , too , with a small printing - press framed somewhat on the principle of a manifold writer , by the help of ...
... lady herself blind , who to the last years of his extreme old age was among the dearest of his friends . He amused himself , too , with a small printing - press framed somewhat on the principle of a manifold writer , by the help of ...
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... lady kept to her bitter vow till the birth of her son - in - law's second child , when like a true woman she stood sponsor to her grandchild , and gave up the bride's dowry . When Mary was asked how she came to refuse so many good ...
... lady kept to her bitter vow till the birth of her son - in - law's second child , when like a true woman she stood sponsor to her grandchild , and gave up the bride's dowry . When Mary was asked how she came to refuse so many good ...
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... , Mademoiselle Theresa Paradis , an Austrian lady , who at the age of two years be- came blind from excessive fear at an outcry of fire and murder , suddenly raised at midnight in her father's house CHAP . XI . 169 JOHN STANLEY .
... , Mademoiselle Theresa Paradis , an Austrian lady , who at the age of two years be- came blind from excessive fear at an outcry of fire and murder , suddenly raised at midnight in her father's house CHAP . XI . 169 JOHN STANLEY .
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... Mr. Dickens , the Rector of Coxworth , a lady with whom he had previously been long acquainted , and by whom he had two children . Whether the union N was a happy one , and whether his married life СНАР . ХІІ . NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON . 177.
... Mr. Dickens , the Rector of Coxworth , a lady with whom he had previously been long acquainted , and by whom he had two children . Whether the union N was a happy one , and whether his married life СНАР . ХІІ . NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON . 177.
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