Anecdotes of the BlindAuthor, 1835 - 52 էջ |
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... I can estimate distances , distinguish persons and de- monstrate a perception of many matters , which , I have found is astonishing to those who are more favored by Heaven than I am . All this comes of the education of the INTRODUCTION. ...
... I can estimate distances , distinguish persons and de- monstrate a perception of many matters , which , I have found is astonishing to those who are more favored by Heaven than I am . All this comes of the education of the INTRODUCTION. ...
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... distinguish persons by their voice and steps - to meas- ure distances by sound , with great facility — and at length I moved about the house with ease , and even made my way through the town of Syracuse , without much difficulty . The ...
... distinguish persons by their voice and steps - to meas- ure distances by sound , with great facility — and at length I moved about the house with ease , and even made my way through the town of Syracuse , without much difficulty . The ...
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... distinguishing the vari- ous beds of flowers , and we walked together over the aque- duct of the canal , where there was no railing , he sportingly telling me , occasionally , to look down and see what a dangerous place was beneath us ...
... distinguishing the vari- ous beds of flowers , and we walked together over the aque- duct of the canal , where there was no railing , he sportingly telling me , occasionally , to look down and see what a dangerous place was beneath us ...
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... distinguish most animals by similar tests . I can tell metals and minerals , by three , at least , of the senses . I can tell a man's size , weight , make , temper , age , whether his neck is long or short , by his voice and tread , and ...
... distinguish most animals by similar tests . I can tell metals and minerals , by three , at least , of the senses . I can tell a man's size , weight , make , temper , age , whether his neck is long or short , by his voice and tread , and ...
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... distinguish colors . If they could , they must have had some organs of perception of which I have no idea . I never could ; and I do not believe it . I can as soon believe that the shell of an oyster feels as keenly as the tips of my ...
... distinguish colors . If they could , they must have had some organs of perception of which I have no idea . I never could ; and I do not believe it . I can as soon believe that the shell of an oyster feels as keenly as the tips of my ...
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Էջ 42 - 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 everduring 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.
Էջ 31 - We saw the very faces of the Jews : the staring, frightful distortions of malice and rage. We saw the buffet ; my soul kindled with a flame of indignation, and my hands were involuntarily and convulsively clenched.
Էջ 32 - ... to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice — "but Jesus Christ — like a God!
Էջ 31 - It was some time before the tumult had subsided so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual, but fallacious, standard of my own weakness, I began to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher. For I could not. conceive how he would be able to let his audience down from the height to which he had wound them, without impairing the solemnity and dignity of his subject or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of the fall.
Էջ 31 - I had heard the subject handled a thousand times : I had thought it exhausted long ago. Little did I suppose, that in the wild woods of America, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give, to this topic, a new and more sublime pathos than I had ever before witnessed.
Էջ 31 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do' — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief.
Էջ 42 - O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me...
Էջ 43 - Annulled, which might in part my grief have eased, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm ; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without...
Էջ 30 - Having frequently seen such objects before, in travelling through these states, I had no difficulty in understanding that this was a place of religious worship. Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation ; but I must confess, that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness, was not the least of my motives. On entering the house, I was struck with his preternatural appearance.
Էջ 32 - Guess my surprise when on my arrival at Richmond, and mentioning the name of this man, I found not one person who had ever before heard of James Waddel.