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us . * There was not another hur habitation within many miles . AH the soil , which we could see , had been brought thither , and placed carefully round the cottage to nourish a few cabbages and
lettuces ., Tjjere were some goats , which supplied the cottagers with piilfc ; a few fo wls lived in the house , and the greatest luxuries of the place were n ^ w-made chee ses ,, and some wild alpine mutton , the rare provision for , th& traveller . Xet here nature had thrown off
the veil , and appeared in all her sublimity . Summits of bare gra . nite rose ail around u « . The $ now-clad tops of distant Alps seemed to chill the moon-beams .
that lighted on them ; and we felt all the charms of the picturesque , mingled with the awe inspired Iky unchangeable grandeur . We seamed to have reached the ori . ginat elevations of the globe * o ' ertopping for ever the tumults , the
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Deaf end Dmnb Institution . ... . . Paris . ,,. _ . London , I 6 t / i Nov . 1814 i Sir ,
Among the interesting . objects with which the French metropolis abounds , the institution for the Deaf and Dumb attracts the notice both of the philanthropic and the curious traveller * Having received much gratification from
attending one of the Abbe Sicard's lectures there lately , and as every thing in that entertaining city occupies at present much of the public attention , it may not prove an uninteresting subject in your valuable miscellany .
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vices > and the miseries of ordinary existence , far out of the hearing of the murmurs of a busy world which discord r&vages and luxury corrupts . We asked for the
Album , and a large folio was brough t us , almost filled with the scrawls of every nation on earth , that could write . Instantly our fa . tigue was forgotten , and the even . ing passed away pleasantly in the entertainment , which this book
afforded us . I copied the follow . ing French couplet : " Dam ces sauvages Ueuk tout orgueil s'humanise ; Dieu sfy memtre pi us grand rhomme Vy pulverise V Signed , * ¦ « p ^ cd . tr 6 nir "
a wish , I ^? uj < c ( , presfrve the elegance , jas \ y $ ^ a * tfi f cqndew ^ d sentiment qC | | ^ c ^ j gi | Dal ^ r «* Still arc tnese ^ niffged realms : e * « - pHde ^ tSisav ^ - ^ ' God seems i&ore grand ? man crttmblfs intodust- ' * ^ r& ' A ¦ ' » ^' , -r ¦•
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/ The French , I believe , iatbe person of the Abbe de V $$ k have the merit of inyfeflting , a system of instr ' uetion fair this unf ^ - tunate class of our fellp ^
v-ereatures , whose minds ^ until . J ( jici were left totally without estivation . The institution at Paris ias been supported by goveriunent for above twenty y ^ ajrs , under tb « able direction of the venerable
Abbe Siqard , the worthy' p ° P and successor of the benevolent Abb 6 de i'Epce , who giv ^ s frequently public gratuitous lecture s , in which he explains the mode of conveying instruction to those who are born deaf . In the course
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«? & 8 D * af ati $ Dumb Institution , at Paris .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/10/
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