Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... nature and use are 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 ...
... nature and use are 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 ...
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... nature ; and of this difference he may be wholly unconscious . He may form , and does form , the most outrageously in- correct ideas on some common matters , though he may continually amuse and surprise you by clever guesses , or gleams ...
... nature ; and of this difference he may be wholly unconscious . He may form , and does form , the most outrageously in- correct ideas on some common matters , though he may continually amuse and surprise you by clever guesses , or gleams ...
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... nature , the appearances of convulsion , the magnificent disorder and ruin , astonish a feeling mind : " filling it with grand images , rousing its dormant life , and telling those made orators and poets that it is time to fulfil the ...
... nature , the appearances of convulsion , the magnificent disorder and ruin , astonish a feeling mind : " filling it with grand images , rousing its dormant life , and telling those made orators and poets that it is time to fulfil the ...
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... Nature is to Newton ; " a remark which appears to have closed that part of the conversation . But the patient again rallied , and returning to his old vein of thought , rambled off to discuss the present state of the world . " It is ...
... Nature is to Newton ; " a remark which appears to have closed that part of the conversation . But the patient again rallied , and returning to his old vein of thought , rambled off to discuss the present state of the world . " It is ...
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... nature lords it still , Sustained by form and phrase Of dire portent and solemn sound , Where meaning seldom can be found , From me shall gain no praise . " This choice stanza is from his poem entitled ' Re- finements in Metaphysical ...
... nature lords it still , Sustained by form and phrase Of dire portent and solemn sound , Where meaning seldom can be found , From me shall gain no praise . " This choice stanza is from his poem entitled ' Re- finements in Metaphysical ...
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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.