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Among these were the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton, Bishops Juxon, Duppa, and Dr. Saunderson, Sir Orlando Bridgman, Sir Thomas Gardiner, and Mr. Geoffrey Palmer. Finally, the King was to be on his parole not to attempt an escape during the Treaty, nor for twenty days afterwards.
We had scarcely arrived at the Perkins Institution for the Blind when I began to make friends with the little blind children. It delighted me inexpressibly to find that they knew the manual alphabet. What joy to talk with other children in my own language! Until then I had been like a foreigner speaking through an interpreter. In the school where Laura Bridgman was taught I was in my own country.
On account of her wonderful power of comprehension special efforts have been made to educate Helen Keller, and for this reason her mind is far more finely developed than in most girls of her age. It is true that she has the advantage over Laura Bridgman in having the senses of taste and smell, both of which she has developed to a most marvelous degree of acuteness.
The Blue made use of the short, snappy English style of text-book, while Harvard pinned its faith to the more deliberate German seminar system. After the contest captains for the following year were elected. Yale chose Bridgman, who did splendid work on Corneille and the poets of the Pléiade, while Harvard's choice fell on Butterworth, probably the best intercollegiate expert on Cervantes.
Bridgman the half-decayed leaves of Phlox verna are particularly liked by worms.
The same results would, as far as we know, be obtained from others in the same unhappy conditions as Laura Bridgman. It is therefore clear that primitive language was only a vocal and individual sign of material images, and it was for a long while restricted to these concrete limits.
At the time of which we write, Doctor Samuel G. Howe, the hero of Greek independence and the mental liberator of Laura Bridgman, was a more famous man than Emerson or Longfellow. He came to Concord with his brilliant wife, and they called at the Old Manse, where Mrs.
On the whole, her questions are analogous to those that a bright three-year-old child asks; but her desire for knowledge is so earnest, the questions are never tedious, though they draw heavily upon my meager store of information, and tax my ingenuity to the utmost. I had a letter from Laura Bridgman last Sunday. Please give her my love, and tell her Helen sends her a kiss.
Howe and others communicated with Laura Bridgman by moving their fingers, and making certain impressions on the palm of her hand. As I told him, I imitated the motions with my fingers on the palm of her hand. She gave one of those peculiar screams which Laura Bridgman does, at times, when she is excited, and her white face glowed with pleasure and strong emotion.
By John Todd. Northampton. Bridgman & Childs. 18mo. pp. 374. 75 cts. The Cavalier, an Historical Novel. By G.P.R. James, Esq. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 391. $1.25. Counterparts, or the Cross of Love. By the Author of "Charles Auchester." Boston. Mayhew & Baker. 8vo. pp. 262. $1.00. Love. Translated from the Fourth Paris Edition by J.W. Palmer, M.D. New York.
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