Some Observations on the Mental State of the Blind, and Deaf, and Dumb: Suggested by the Case of Jane Sullivan, Both Blind, Deaf, Dumb, and Uneducated |
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... notion of distance , drawn up from notes left by the late Thomas Wedge- wood , Esq . , and published in the third volume of the Journal of the Royal Institution , Mr. W. has this observation : - " The invariable conjunction of the notions ...
... notion of distance , drawn up from notes left by the late Thomas Wedge- wood , Esq . , and published in the third volume of the Journal of the Royal Institution , Mr. W. has this observation : - " The invariable conjunction of the notions ...
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... notions of right and wrong , of true and false , appear to be correct . She has no notion of doing to others what she expects from them , and no notions of religion . She is very sensible of any kindness shown to her . If she puts any ...
... notions of right and wrong , of true and false , appear to be correct . She has no notion of doing to others what she expects from them , and no notions of religion . She is very sensible of any kindness shown to her . If she puts any ...
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... notion of power ( which also might be extended to infinity ) than Locke seems to have acquired ; and if these could be annexed to her already well - formed notion of a moral Being , I do not see why the sublime conceptions of a Newton ...
... notion of power ( which also might be extended to infinity ) than Locke seems to have acquired ; and if these could be annexed to her already well - formed notion of a moral Being , I do not see why the sublime conceptions of a Newton ...
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... notion of the dif- ference of mental feelings in the blind when compared with his own , by giving all his attention to the intimation he receives from touch while groping his way in the dark . This , too , will satisfy him of the ...
... notion of the dif- ference of mental feelings in the blind when compared with his own , by giving all his attention to the intimation he receives from touch while groping his way in the dark . This , too , will satisfy him of the ...
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... notion of magnitude or figure ; and the superiority of the hand above other parts of the body in suggesting these notions is owing entirely to the more numerous visual ideas which our habits have connected with it . The hand is indeed ...
... notion of magnitude or figure ; and the superiority of the hand above other parts of the body in suggesting these notions is owing entirely to the more numerous visual ideas which our habits have connected with it . The hand is indeed ...
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Page 7 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 8 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 41 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
Page 48 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 48 - PROSPERO'S mysterious spell Drew every subject-spirit to his cell ; Each, at thy call, advances or retires, As judgment dictates or the scene inspires. Each thrills the seat of sense, that sacred source Whence the fine nerves direct their mazy course, And through the frame invisibly convey The subtle, quick vibrations as they play ; Man's little universe at once o'ercast, At once illumined when the cloud is past.
Page 48 - Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise !* Each stamps its image as the other flies. Each, as the various avenues of sense Delight or sorrow to the soul dispense, Brightens or fades ; yet all, with magic art, Control the latent fibres of the heart.
Page 41 - ... unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 60 - Are not that thinking I, no more than they: This frame, compacted, with transcendent skill, Of moving joints obedient to my will; Nursed from the fruitful glebe, like yonder tree, Waxes and wastes; I call it mine, not me: New matter still the mouldering mass sustains, The mansion changed, the tenant still remains: And from the fleeting stream repaired by food, Distinct, as is the swimmer from the flood.
Page 63 - JEternus est et infinitus, omnipotens et omnisciens ; id est, durat ab seterno in seternum, et adest ab infinito in infinitum. — Non est aeternitas et infinitas, sed seternus et infinitus ; non est duratio et spatium, sed durat et adest. Durat semper, et adest ubique ; et existendo semper et ubique, durationem et spatium constituit.
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