Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario, 4. kötet

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18. oldal - ... assure them they have acquired the power of speech, and who can use their voices, such as they are, with considerable fluency, are conspicuous failures as speakers in the world at large. The utterance of these, understood easily by teachers and intimate friends, is often so muffled or harsh, and so imperfect, as to repel strangers, putting the deaf person at a much greater disadvantage than if, remaining silent, he resorted to writing as a means of communication. The testimony of the intelligent,...
87. oldal - Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light
38. oldal - The trials of children shall take place without publicity and separately and apart from the trials of other accused persons, and at suitable times to be designated and appointed for that purpose.
87. oldal - For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to...
19. oldal - ... those just described. But the eye strain is so much greater, the radius of vision so much smaller, and the power of expression so much restricted and diminished that the advantage lies greatly with the employment of the language of signs. Thinking that the question may arise in the minds of some, "Does the sign language give the deaf, when used in public addresses, all that speech affords to the hearing?" I will say that my experience and observation lead me to answer with a decided affirmative....
87. oldal - The gulf between the rich and poor will grow wider and wider. One will depend on cunning, the other on force. It is a great question whether those who live in luxury can afford to allow others to exist in want. The value of property depends, not on the prosperity of the few, but on the prosperity of a very large majority. Life and property must be secure, or that subtle thing called "value
15. oldal - There is scarcely a great writer of fiction who has not somewhere introduced this figure in the shifting panorama of romance, appealing for pity to a world which never fails to compassionate imaginary woes; now it is Effie Deans in the Heart of Midlothian ; now Fantine, resting by the roadside with Cosette in her arms; or Hester Prynne, pressing little Pearl against the scarlet letter as she listens from the pillory to the sermon of Mr. Dimmesdale.
88. oldal - The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread Where love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells— The Book of Life the shining record tells.
259. oldal - It has given speech to some who were dumb, and who, if left without special aid, would have remained dumb. "It has greatly improved the condition of more than four-fifths of its pupils, as their friends will testify.

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