The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes; their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction / By Edwin John Mann.

Mann, Edwin John, 1812-

Date:: 1836

Credit: The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes; their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction / By Edwin John Mann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$HE DEAF AND BLIND GIRL. 244 “This child,” said the Abbé, kindly taking her by the hand, “is peculiarly interesting to me. I shall always remember the pleasure I experienced from her earliest instruction, and one circumstance I can never recollect without emotion. One of the first impressions which f{ endeavored to stamp on her in- fant mind was the conception of .a God. . In propor- tien as J advanced in my efforts, she became more delighted with the subject ; and when I at last suc- ceeded in conveying an idea of the existence and attributes of our all-bounteous parent, she suddenly threw herself on her knees, lifted her hands and eyes fora moment in an attitude of adoration, and then springing from. the ground, attempted to leave me. Whither are you going? said I. To find my father and my mother, was the reply, and to tell them there asa God. THE DEAF AND BLIND GIRL. [From the Lady’s Magazine. ] Mysrenriovs being ! —shut from sound and sight 5 And barr’d from all communion with thy kind; ‘Would thou couldst tell me what thy mental light, And what the musings of thy lonely mind. Would thou couldst tell me what the hidden springs Of joy, that gush out in thy gladden’d smile ; What gay immaginings of unknown things, Can charm thy spirit, and thy hours beguile. __ 21 | — | * , ee$