Blindness and the Blind: Or, A Treatise on the Science of TyphologyChapman and Hall, 1872 - 518 páginas |
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... embossed notes of whatever appeared worthy of preservation , his motto being that a thought unrecorded was a thought lost ; and seeing that during the whole of that period he has been en- gaged in matters connected with the Blind , and ...
... embossed notes of whatever appeared worthy of preservation , his motto being that a thought unrecorded was a thought lost ; and seeing that during the whole of that period he has been en- gaged in matters connected with the Blind , and ...
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... Embossed Writing Copies Writing that may be read by the Blind and by the Sighted · An Arithmetical Apparatus . A Tangible Measuring Tape A Chess and Draught Board • 511 • . 511 . 513 . 514 515 Appendix - continued . Page An Instruction ...
... Embossed Writing Copies Writing that may be read by the Blind and by the Sighted · An Arithmetical Apparatus . A Tangible Measuring Tape A Chess and Draught Board • 511 • . 511 . 513 . 514 515 Appendix - continued . Page An Instruction ...
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... embossed Bible , that she could read with her lips , which practice she afterwards followed . The present writer has tried this experiment with perfect success , but inconvenience of position , and interference with respiration will ...
... embossed Bible , that she could read with her lips , which practice she afterwards followed . The present writer has tried this experiment with perfect success , but inconvenience of position , and interference with respiration will ...
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... embossed by him , and on December 26th , 1786 , he examined be- fore the amiable and unfortunate Louis XVI . twenty- four pupils in reading , writing , music , geography , and arithmetic , and in the same year he published an ac- count ...
... embossed by him , and on December 26th , 1786 , he examined be- fore the amiable and unfortunate Louis XVI . twenty- four pupils in reading , writing , music , geography , and arithmetic , and in the same year he published an ac- count ...
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... embossed print in the later books is fretted , so as to produce a sense of roughness to the touch , which modification it was supposed added clearness and durability to the print ; but it never met with much favour from finger- readers ...
... embossed print in the later books is fretted , so as to produce a sense of roughness to the touch , which modification it was supposed added clearness and durability to the print ; but it never met with much favour from finger- readers ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affliction alphabet appeared asylum attention Blacklock blessing blind persons Bohemia Braille Bruges cause characters Church circumstances commenced common connected death deprived of sight embossed emperor employed enabled England English Esau establishment exists eyes father feeling formed France friends give hand Haüy head placed Holman Homer honour Iliad inmates institution invented Isaac Isaac Angelus John John Gower John Milton king labours letters lines lived London loss of sight lost his sight maps means ment Milton mode never obtained organists Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Paris persons without sight poet possessed present prince printed produced pupils reading relief print remarkable Roman Roman type Samson Samson Agonistes Samuel Morland Saunderson says sense sightless Society soon Street tangible thee thou Timoleon tion touch town unto Valentine Haüy various verses writing Ziska دو
Passagens conhecidas
Página 19 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, 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.
Página 507 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 195 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 147 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Página 146 - And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Página 150 - There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a "N azarite unto God from my mother's womb : if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Página 152 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 153 - Now the house was full of men and women ; and all the lords of the Philistines were there ; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Página 151 - Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay; let me not rashly call in doubt Divine Prediction; what if all foretold Had been fulfill'd but through mine own default?
Página 214 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?