Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... genius as a mathematician , his keenness of judgment , his accuracy as a reasoner , and his dexterity and quickness in performing arithmetical operations , naturally lead to the question of how far the sense of touch in the blind , as ...
... genius as a mathematician , his keenness of judgment , his accuracy as a reasoner , and his dexterity and quickness in performing arithmetical operations , naturally lead to the question of how far the sense of touch in the blind , as ...
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... Genius as he was , and full of resources which genius alone can devise and use , he would doubtless have rejoiced to possess one of the plain and simple arithmetic boards now in use at St. George's Fields . * 6 Embossing a letter is a ...
... Genius as he was , and full of resources which genius alone can devise and use , he would doubtless have rejoiced to possess one of the plain and simple arithmetic boards now in use at St. George's Fields . * 6 Embossing a letter is a ...
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... genius as he was , only got as far as to conceive that " the art of seeing was similar to that of a series of threads being drawn from the distant object to the eye . " The cessation of resistance may be to the touch of a blind boy what ...
... genius as he was , only got as far as to conceive that " the art of seeing was similar to that of a series of threads being drawn from the distant object to the eye . " The cessation of resistance may be to the touch of a blind boy what ...
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... genius ; his manhood would have been saved from many an excess , and his old age have been preserved from the deadly taint of scepticism . John Stanley , the organist of St. Andrew's , Holborn † ( 1730 ) , to whose playing Handel often ...
... genius ; his manhood would have been saved from many an excess , and his old age have been preserved from the deadly taint of scepticism . John Stanley , the organist of St. Andrew's , Holborn † ( 1730 ) , to whose playing Handel often ...
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... genius as his , and say exactly what it may or may not do . It is enough to say that there is but one Saunderson on record , and cen- turies may elapse before we meet with another . " To the blind man , " says Hauy , " the visible world ...
... genius as his , and say exactly what it may or may not do . It is enough to say that there is but one Saunderson on record , and cen- turies may elapse before we meet with another . " To the blind man , " says Hauy , " the visible world ...
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Ancient ASTRONOMICAL Bampton Lectures beauty become blind bees Biography blind boy BLIND BOY'S blind children blind musician Blind School CHARLES Christ's College Clarionets clever colours companions Crown 8vo darkness Democritus Dictionary doubt embossed English Essays eyes famous blind Fcap Fifth Edition finger Fourth Edition G. F. Handel G. R. GLEIG genius GEORGE George's Fields Greek Guillié Handel Harrogate hearing History of England Huber Illustrations JOHN JOHN METCALF Julius Cæsar Knaresborough labour LADY large number Latin light living London LORD managed Memoir Metcalf never NICHOLAS SAUNDERSON Notes once ordinary Plates playing poet Poetical Popular Edition Portrait Post 8vo Puiseaux pupil ROBERT SOUTHEY Roman letter Royal 8vo Saunderson says Second Edition SIR HENRY RAWLINSON Sketches SMITH Stanley STUDENT'S tell Third Edition tion TOM TAYLOR Translated Travels Vols whole Woodcuts words
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Seite 129 - Thus with the year 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, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
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Seite 55 - 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.
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Seite 127 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
Seite 5 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.