Blind People: Their Works and Ways; with Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind MenJ. Murray, 1867 - 196 Seiten |
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... thoughts , but in a form too brief or too general to satisfy the inquirer . Yet , wherever it was possible , recourse has been had to their own words , which have been left to tell their plain story . It would have been easy to add to ...
... thoughts , but in a form too brief or too general to satisfy the inquirer . Yet , wherever it was possible , recourse has been had to their own words , which have been left to tell their plain story . It would have been easy to add to ...
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... thought , as he grew up , to Mathematics , in which he greatly excelled , and numbering among his pupils the famous names of Whewell , second Wrangler , and late Master of Trinity College , Cambridge ; Dawes , fourth Wrangler , Gaskin ...
... thought , as he grew up , to Mathematics , in which he greatly excelled , and numbering among his pupils the famous names of Whewell , second Wrangler , and late Master of Trinity College , Cambridge ; Dawes , fourth Wrangler , Gaskin ...
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... thoughts . Untrained he may have no idea of decorum , of social propriety , or of modesty . " ( Du Puiseaux used to say , that he could not understand why one part of the body should be covered more than another . ) His loss of vision ...
... thoughts . Untrained he may have no idea of decorum , of social propriety , or of modesty . " ( Du Puiseaux used to say , that he could not understand why one part of the body should be covered more than another . ) His loss of vision ...
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... thought ; he becomes selfish ; selfishness at times makes him talkative , but as often moody ; he grows silent , reserved , nervous , timid , opinionated , and discontented . These are too often ( whatever optimists may imagine to the ...
... thought ; he becomes selfish ; selfishness at times makes him talkative , but as often moody ; he grows silent , reserved , nervous , timid , opinionated , and discontented . These are too often ( whatever optimists may imagine to the ...
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... thought , plunges boldly into the puzzle , and solves it with half the figures required by an ordinary arithmetician . No The board on which Saunderson performed his arithmetical calculations was a far more complicated affair , and ...
... thought , plunges boldly into the puzzle , and solves it with half the figures required by an ordinary arithmetician . No The board on which Saunderson performed his arithmetical calculations was a far more complicated affair , and ...
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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.