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able Acquired articulation acquisition adjective afflicted amongst association attained blessed blind Brighton Claremont collocation comprehend conveyed correct countenance dactylology deaf and dumb DEAF-MUTE COMPOSITION deprivation Dublin dumb persons earth employment English expression fingers friends gestures give hand hearing child heaven home and social idea imitate imperfect instances Institution intellectual intelligent interest INTERMARRIAGE King George IV King of England knife knowledge known language of signs letters live London LONDON SYSTEM means of communication MENTAL AND MORAL mind MORAL CONDITION natural language natural signs noun object opinion ordinary children ordinary teachers Orpen pantomime parents peculiar phrase plurals practice proficiency proper pupils know religious instruction result SAMUEL SMITH sentence sign-language sound speak SPECIMENS OF DEAF-MUTE spect speech spelling spoken language taught teaching things thought tion tympanum understand understood verb vocal utterance welfare word cat write written
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Página 12 - God, but all that she had been able to imagine was, that this name belonged to a number of strong men living above the sky, who printed the Bible and sent it to us. The idea that the world must have had a Creator never occurred to her, nor to any other of several intelligent pupils of similar age, and with equal advantages for acquiring ideas of religious truth.
Página 46 - My dear George — I hope I will see you, when you come here, to see the Deaf and Dumb pupils; I am very sorry, that you never did come here to see them. I never saw you; you ought to see the Deaf and Dumb boys and girls ; I will be very glad to see you, if you will come here often to see me. Did you ever see the Deaf and Dumb...
Página 8 - In my childhood my father made me make prayers in gestures, evening and morning. I threw myself on my knees, I joined my hands and moved my lips in imitation of those who speak when they are praying to God. " At present I know that there is a God, who is the Creator of heaven and earth.
Página 46 - I know them very little. Claremont is a very beautiful place, it has a great deal of meadows, ponds, lakes, trees, flowers, gardens, a horse and an ass. I am thinking of every thing, and to be polite to every one. Some of the Deaf and Dumb boys are always working in our garden, with my brother. I have been at school for four years and a half. I am sixteen years of my age. I am very delighted, that I am improving very much. Perhaps I will be an Assistant of the Deaf and Dumb School. There are forty-one...
Página 7 - Thus there are several ways in which respect for, and sometimes worship of, an animal arises: all of them, however, implying identification of it with a human being. A pupil of the Edinburgh institution for deaf-mutes said, "before I came to school, I thought that the stars were placed in the firmament like grates of fire.
Página 52 - Day, made to the Board seven years ago. Mr. Day's opportunities for testing thoroughly the results attained in the most celebrated articulating schools were much more extensive than those enjoyed by myself ; and to his conclusions, (the result of the most thorough and searching examination of...
Página 9 - Was it with ideas, words, or sentiments that you composed your prayer?" " It was the heart that made it. I did not yet know either words or their meaning or value." " What did you feel in your heart ?" "Joy, when I found that the plants and fruits grew. Grief, when I saw their injury by the hail, and that my parents still remained sick.
Página 8 - I grew tall. But if I had not known my instructor, Sicard, my mind would not have grown as my body ; for my mind was very poor ; in growing up I should have thought that the heavens were God.
Página 9 - At these last words of his answer, Massieu made many signs, which expressed anger and menaces. "The fact, as I have been informed," says the narrator, " was, that during his mother's illness, he used to go out every evening to pray to a particular star, that he had selected for its beauty, for her restoration ; but finding that she got worse, he was enraged, and pelted stones at the star. ' Is it possible that you menaced the heavens ?' said we, with astonishment. 'Yes.
Página 9 - ... to be entirely wanting. A highly educated deaf and dumb gentleman, in reply to the question, whether previous to his admission into the Institution, where he received his education, he had any idea of God or of the origin of the world and the beings and things it contains, used this language : " I had none at all, nor had I any of my own soul, for it never occurred to me to seek to know what was that within me, which thought and willed.