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But if he want Cooper's Chronicle, he may have to wait for it, since its latest form is still the black-letter. True, I did pick up a copy lately, at Braidwood's, for half-a-guinea, but that was a catch it might have caused the search of a lifetime.
That any have attained to the power mentioned by Burnet, of feeling sounds, by laying a hand on the speaker's mouth, I know not; but I have seen so much, that I can believe more; a single word, or a short sentence, I think, may possibly be so distinguished. It will readily be supposed by those that consider this subject, that Mr. Braidwood's scholars spell accurately.
Was it upon that occasion that he expressed no curiosity to see the room at Dumfermline, where Charles I was born? Near the end of his Journey, Dr Johnson has given liberal praise to Mr Braidwood's academy for the deaf and dumb. When he visited it, a circumstance occurred which was truly characteristical of our great lexicographer.
'Was it upon that occasion that he expressed no curiosity to see the room at Dumfermline, where Charles I. was born? Did he envy us the birth-place of the king? Near the end of his Journey, Dr. Johnson has given liberal praise to Mr. Braidwood's academy for the deaf and dumb . When he visited it, a circumstance occurred which was truly characteristical of our great Lexicographer.
One of the best criticks of our age 'does not wish to prevent the admirers of the incorrect and nerveless style which generally prevailed for a century before Dr. Braidwood's skill to the strictest test, and to try the efficacy of his instruction by the most difficult exertion of the organs of his pupils. BOSWELL. 'One of the best critics of our age' is, I believe, Malone.
Having been first practised upon the son of a constable of Spain, it was afterwards cultivated with much emulation in England, by Wallis and Holder, and was lately professed by Mr. Baker, who once flattered me with hopes of seeing his method published. How far any former teachers have succeeded, it is not easy to know; the improvement of Mr. Braidwood's pupils is wonderful.
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