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... books in raised type , 14,353 60 Furniture of Printing Office , 4,753 91 Stereotype Plates , 1,928 00 School ... Embossed Books , printed at the Perkins Institution 1871. ] 15 PUBLIC DOCUMENT - No . 27 . Account of Stock, October, 1871. ...
... books in raised type , 14,353 60 Furniture of Printing Office , 4,753 91 Stereotype Plates , 1,928 00 School ... Embossed Books , printed at the Perkins Institution 1871. ] 15 PUBLIC DOCUMENT - No . 27 . Account of Stock, October, 1871. ...
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Perkins School for the Blind. List of Embossed Books , printed at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind . No. of Vols . Price per bound Vol . of those for sale . Price per unbound Vol . Howe's Blind Child's ...
Perkins School for the Blind. List of Embossed Books , printed at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind . No. of Vols . Price per bound Vol . of those for sale . Price per unbound Vol . Howe's Blind Child's ...
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... book . He embossed some stiff paper with large letters , and found they could be distinguished by the touch . He immediately sought out some blind children , among whom was a little beggar boy , named Lesuer , of superior talent and ...
... book . He embossed some stiff paper with large letters , and found they could be distinguished by the touch . He immediately sought out some blind children , among whom was a little beggar boy , named Lesuer , of superior talent and ...
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... embossed books for the blind . This is a matter not only of great importance to those blind children 1872. ] 7 PUBLIC DOCUMENT - No . 27 .
... embossed books for the blind . This is a matter not only of great importance to those blind children 1872. ] 7 PUBLIC DOCUMENT - No . 27 .
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... books which they can read . They are , with very few ex- ceptions , indigent , and cannot afford to buy embossed books , however earnestly they may desire to do so . They are too costly . The work of creating a library for the blind of ...
... books which they can read . They are , with very few ex- ceptions , indigent , and cannot afford to buy embossed books , however earnestly they may desire to do so . They are too costly . The work of creating a library for the blind of ...
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Էջ 164 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Էջ 164 - Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? -It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Էջ 34 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Էջ 41 - Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false Ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give Infamy renown.
Էջ 164 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name Finds comfort in himself and in his cause ; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause : This is the happy warrior ; this is he That every man in arms should wish to be.
Էջ 88 - She could read printed books readily and easily; finding out for herself, for intance, any chapter and verse of Scripture. She could also read letters from her friends in pricked type, or by the Braille system of points. She could also write down her own thoughts and experiences in a diary; and could keep up a correspondence with her family and friends by sending to them letters in pencil, and receiving their answers either in pricked letters, which she could read by the touch, or letters written...
Էջ 161 - Carpenter, in treating of the dependence of mental activity on the senses, says : " If it were possible for a human being to come into the world with a brain perfectly prepared to be the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets of sense-impressions closed, we have every reason to believe that the mind would remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth.
Էջ 161 - This was the first step gained. This process was repeated over and over hundreds of times, until, finally, the association was established in her mind between the sign composed of three signs, and expressed by three positions of my fingers, and the article itself, so that when I held up the pen to her she would herself make the complex sign; and when I made the complex sign on my fingers, she would triumphantly pick up the pen and hold it up before me, as much as to say,
Էջ 95 - I could carry my gun and heavy belt with yatagan and pistols all day long, clambering among the mountain passes, could eat sorrel and snails, or go without anything, and at night lie down on the ground with only my shaggy capote, and sleep like a log.
Էջ 149 - He has visited all Europe— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...