Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... hard to be understood . account of it we have met with offers a clear explana- tion of the various parts ; but we will do our best to condense and improve that written by Hinchcliff , his pupil and successor . The board was thin and ...
... hard to be understood . account of it we have met with offers a clear explana- tion of the various parts ; but we will do our best to condense and improve that written by Hinchcliff , his pupil and successor . The board was thin and ...
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... hard when there to give him any true notion of his height above the wilderness of smoky house - tops below . If perched on the top of the cross , like Holman the blind traveller on Adam's Peak in Ceylon , he might exult in his lofty ...
... hard when there to give him any true notion of his height above the wilderness of smoky house - tops below . If perched on the top of the cross , like Holman the blind traveller on Adam's Peak in Ceylon , he might exult in his lofty ...
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... hard : so far , therefore , his way towards deep , inward , thought is cleared ; wind and tide seem in his favour . But he must know how to manage the sails , and to steer the ship ; he must have clear power of thought , and be trained ...
... hard : so far , therefore , his way towards deep , inward , thought is cleared ; wind and tide seem in his favour . But he must know how to manage the sails , and to steer the ship ; he must have clear power of thought , and be trained ...
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... hard to exaggerate the gain— " Since light so necessary is to life , Nay almost life itself — " * which light brings to the rest of the world . " There are , " says Pascal , " two infinities that lie round about man , the worlds ...
... hard to exaggerate the gain— " Since light so necessary is to life , Nay almost life itself — " * which light brings to the rest of the world . " There are , " says Pascal , " two infinities that lie round about man , the worlds ...
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... hard , dead loss , which , unless he be roused out of the gloom , and taught to find light in it - in tenebris servare fidem - may shatter or dwarf his whole mental and spiritual powers , and point the way to doubt , distrust , or ...
... hard , dead loss , which , unless he be roused out of the gloom , and taught to find light in it - in tenebris servare fidem - may shatter or dwarf his whole mental and spiritual powers , and point the way to doubt , distrust , or ...
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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 9 - CURETON (Rev. W.) Remains of a very Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe. Discovered, Edited, and Translated. 4to. 24s. CURTIUS' (PROFESSOR) Student's Greek Grammar, for the use of Colleges and the Upper Forms.
Seite 30 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
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.
Seite 9 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of his Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. 42s. CUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 21 - CHARLES) Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology.
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.
Seite 8 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Seite 11 - ENGEL'S (CARL) Music of the Most Ancient Nations ; particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, And Hebrews ; with Special Reference to the Discoveries in Western Asia and in Egypt. With 100 Illustrations. Svo. 16».
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.