Blindness and the Blind: Or, A Treatise on the Science of Typhology |
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affliction alphabet appeared Asylum Bible blessing blind blind persons Bohemia Braille Bruges cause characters Church circumstances colour common connected death deprived of sight Edinburgh embossed Emperor employed enabled England English Esau evils existence eyes father feeling fingers formed Frere friends hand Haüy head placed institution invented Isaac Isaac Angelus James Gall James Holman John king labours letters light lived London loss of sight lost his sight means ment Milton mode never objects obtained ophthalmia Paradise Lost Paris perceive persons without sight Philistines poet possessed present Prince produced pupils reader relief print remarkable Roman Roman type Samson Samson Agonistes Samuel Morland Saunderson says scrofula sense sightless Society soon Street tangible thee thou Timoleon tion touch town unto Valentine Haüy various verse writing Ziska دو
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Page 473 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 112 - 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.
Page 161 - 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.
Page 116 - 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.
Page 119 - 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.
Page 180 - 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.
Page 118 - Let there be lig;ht, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd 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.
Page 118 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?
Page 181 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was this sight To such a tender ball as the...
Page 181 - 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...