A Blind Man's Offeringauthor, 1892 - 432 trang |
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accomplished angels beautiful behold better blessed blind persons bright character Charles Fourier Charles Landon cheer child commenced consciousness countenance dark deep degraded delight deprived destiny divine earth effect endeavored enjoy evanescent evils exert exis existence express eyes father favor feel felt flowers forever hand happiness hear heart heaven hope hour human human voice idea influence innu institutions intel intellectual knowledge labor Landon Laura Laura Bridgman light live look manifested mankind manual alphabet Maria material world ment mighty heart mind misfortune moral Morndale mother nature ness never Nicholas Saunderson object obtain philanthropist philosophy physical Plato poor possess present remark Rochford Sanderson seems senses sight smile society soon soul speak spirit sweet sympathy tained tence thee things thou thought tion true truth uncon vidual voice words young Zoroaster
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Trang 217 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Trang 181 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Trang 273 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...
Trang 419 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Trang 387 - ... a twining of arms, a grasping of hands, and a swift telegraphing upon the tiny fingers, whose rapid evolutions convey the thoughts and feelings from the outposts of one mind to those of the other. There are questions and' answers, exchanges of joy or sorrow, there are kissings and partings, just as between little children with all their senses...
Trang 386 - In this lonely self-communion she seems to reason, reflect, and argue; if she spell a word wrong with the fingers of her right hand she instantly strikes it with her left, as her teacher does, in sign of disapprobation; if right, then she pats herself upon the head and looks pleased. She sometimes purposely spells a word wrong with the left hand, looks roguish for a moment and laughs, and then with the right hand strikes the left, as if to correct it.
Trang 145 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not ! Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate.
Trang 209 - The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
Trang 153 - The subject itself which Saunderson chose, independently of the manner in which he treated it, was well calculated to attract notice, few things seeming at first view more extraordinary than that a man who had been blind almost from his birth should be able to explain the phenomena and expound the doctrines of light. The disadvantage under which...
Trang 381 - ... knowledge of arbitrary signs, by which she could interchange thoughts with others. " There was one of two ways to be adopted : either to go on to build up a language of signs on the basis of the natural language which she had already commenced herself, or to teach her the purely arbitrary language in common use : that is, to give her a sign for every individual thing, or to give her a knowledge of letters by...