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Page 1 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page 74 - Description of Music, by a Deaf and Dumb person. " Music is a copy or rule of voice. While a person sings, he looks in a musical book, and sings according to the musical rule. I was told, that music is very lively. I know it is far more delicious, than the fine food and drink. It is wonderful, that music has the virtue of exciting the heart. It inspirits persons, who are discouraged or look downcast. Martial music makes the soul brave. Melancholy music drops the tears from the eyes of persons. Many...
Page 123 - ... steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as they know that their labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 55 - Esq. in the Chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, PJ M'Kenna, Esq. read a paper " On the Criminal Jurisdiction of Courts of Quarter Sessions in Ireland.
Page 16 - ... the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, the First and the Last. To the height of this great argument we rise from the evidences furnished both by matter and mind. The material universe is full of indications of the natural attributes of the Creator. And our mental constitution is no less full of evidences of his moral nature. We weaken our...
Page 74 - ... spider a person becomes crazy. A number of musicians are immediately called. They play upon musical instruments before him. He is moved by hearing the sweet music. It removes his fatal craziness, and he becomes quiet, and is delivered from death. He cannot recognize his past craziness. The music casts the recollection of his craziness into oblivion. But the music cannot heal the deaf and dumb of this fatal craziness. But the deaf and dumb should be very careful, and flee from the tarantula. The...
Page 74 - Melancholy music drops the tears from the eyes of persons. Many persons are transported by the sweet music. It is especially more striking', that the sweet music is the sovereign remedy against the craziness, caused by the bite of a Tarantula, — a great and poisonous spider. Having been bitten by this spider, a person becomes crazy. A number of musicians are immediately called. They play upon musical instruments before him. He is moved by hearing the sweet music. It removes this fatal * A Discourse,...
Page 74 - ... hear. Observe how the writer of the following escapes from the painful attempts to define what he does not understand, to rest upon the tangible idea of the tarantula. " Music is a copy or rule of voice. When a person sings, he looks in a musical book, and sings according to the musical rule. I am told that music is very lively. I know it is far more delicious than the fine food or drink. It is wonderful that music has the virtue of exciting the heart. It inspirits persons who are discouraged...
Page 76 - Institution, on giving them a satisfactory bond to pay a sum of £ (never more than 20 Guineas) annually, during the education of such pupil, or an equivalent sum at once ; for which sum the Committee will educate, maintain and clothe the pupil. When the parents or friends of a Deaf and Dumb child are not absolutely indigent, and yet able to pay only...