Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... HEARING CHAPTER II . -ITS KEENNESS -THE DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING BLINDNESS - ITS ADVANTAGES - ISOLATION ; ITS PERILS HOW THE BLIND DREAM - POETRY OF BLIND PEOPLE - THEIR POWERS OF MEMORY STATISTICS OF BLINDNESS — BEGGARS - CHESS 31 ...
... HEARING CHAPTER II . -ITS KEENNESS -THE DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING BLINDNESS - ITS ADVANTAGES - ISOLATION ; ITS PERILS HOW THE BLIND DREAM - POETRY OF BLIND PEOPLE - THEIR POWERS OF MEMORY STATISTICS OF BLINDNESS — BEGGARS - CHESS 31 ...
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... hearing , taste , and intellect all becoming doubly acute . But this is only one of the plausible fancies by which people relieve their minds from the uneasy contemplation of a hopeless calamity ; for , on the contrary , wide and long ...
... hearing , taste , and intellect all becoming doubly acute . But this is only one of the plausible fancies by which people relieve their minds from the uneasy contemplation of a hopeless calamity ; for , on the contrary , wide and long ...
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... hearing are being silently and surely educated ; as their education progresses they become keener— hearing as a sharp and watchful sentinel , * guide , and spy ; touch as his servant - of - all - work and de- tective . To the seeing ...
... hearing are being silently and surely educated ; as their education progresses they become keener— hearing as a sharp and watchful sentinel , * guide , and spy ; touch as his servant - of - all - work and de- tective . To the seeing ...
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... should there not be a fine scenting - day for study ? —Lectures on Moral Philosophy , p . 62 . * at , therefore , that when some one asked CHAP . I. 27 THEIR WORKS AND WAYS . INTRODUCTORY-THE SENSE OF TOUCH THE SENSE OF HEARING.
... should there not be a fine scenting - day for study ? —Lectures on Moral Philosophy , p . 62 . * at , therefore , that when some one asked CHAP . I. 27 THEIR WORKS AND WAYS . INTRODUCTORY-THE SENSE OF TOUCH THE SENSE OF HEARING.
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... hearing . The blind boy knows the step of his friend in a trice , decides quickly or even in- stantly which way that step is moying ; and , if it be coming towards him , exactly at what across the room or yard to meet it . angle to run ...
... hearing . The blind boy knows the step of his friend in a trice , decides quickly or even in- stantly which way that step is moying ; and , if it be coming towards him , exactly at what across the room or yard to meet it . angle to run ...
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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.