Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... speak from his own experience and observation , and , where he has had to rely on others , to verify their words ; a task that is not always so easy as it might seem . For the Blind , as a class , are apt to be shy and reserved in speaking ...
... speak from his own experience and observation , and , where he has had to rely on others , to verify their words ; a task that is not always so easy as it might seem . For the Blind , as a class , are apt to be shy and reserved in speaking ...
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... Speaking of the education of the sense of touch , Sydney Smith whimsically conjectures as to the possibility of educating the taste and smell to an equal degree of keenness . As the blind child feels certain marks raised on paper ...
... Speaking of the education of the sense of touch , Sydney Smith whimsically conjectures as to the possibility of educating the taste and smell to an equal degree of keenness . As the blind child feels certain marks raised on paper ...
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... speak from earth , sea , and sky ; the smooth and immeasurable expanse of summer seas , the silent grandeur of the blue sky above , with all its wealth of palaces and towers of fleecy cloud , the golden glory of morning , the gorgeous ...
... speak from earth , sea , and sky ; the smooth and immeasurable expanse of summer seas , the silent grandeur of the blue sky above , with all its wealth of palaces and towers of fleecy cloud , the golden glory of morning , the gorgeous ...
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... speaking beauty of the wide- spread landscape , * the flowing sweep of the ever- lasting hills , the proud , calm majesty of snow - clad mountains , the green and purple outline of the forest , the beauty of waving corn , and the grace ...
... speaking beauty of the wide- spread landscape , * the flowing sweep of the ever- lasting hills , the proud , calm majesty of snow - clad mountains , the green and purple outline of the forest , the beauty of waving corn , and the grace ...
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... never dream of my mother , " said a blind man to Mayhew ( i . 402 ) ; " she died , you see , when I was a baby ; I can't ever remember hearing her speak . " . to be read to him , catching here and there 58 СНАР . ІЇ . BLIND PEOPLE -
... never dream of my mother , " said a blind man to Mayhew ( i . 402 ) ; " she died , you see , when I was a baby ; I can't ever remember hearing her speak . " . to be read to him , catching here and there 58 СНАР . ІЇ . BLIND PEOPLE -
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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.
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