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    Ati thia day I have the same sj > kit ; , the rs ^ iiire ^ atrengtli * ? ay eyes onlyare not the # aiw £ ^ y $ k | orexfe 0 rnal appear an ce ^ they are as eojoapletejy without injury , a& < jl ^ Caa 4 iM ^ whose sight isr the i most p ; erfeet ^ ln > this i ? espe ^ t qriiy am > I a d&senibler , ; and > heffe ; it is ; againstimy will . In niy countenance ^ ) $ & £ & mhich t as he * & « s ? isaid ^ there 'is n ^ Wn gf rnorje bl . podleas /^ Tthere , «{ still reEaainSi&reoteur sci very > poM bit e , to the Woodless-apd pale , that , Ijhougfe fturned of ifotty ^ lllkeuG is seai ^ eetbyi li ^ would not think t § a

    anyi ^ nle Aw me younge r by dearly yeaiisU . ^> I ^ is ; etjually untrue that either jtiy body pr my skinM ^ shriyiileci IiifrtliiBS ^ rJJ ^ rtieulars \ y&r&I guftty to £ aiaiysfaiaehoo < l , i I should deservedly ^ x ^ oae ^ sayseif ) ll € ) ith ^ ridi « oule > of ai any thousands of my country nien * who- riaow >* ftidvpexsoji !» ily ^/< 3 iid evenvof Ioueigniers , not a few .., . . Thus mucli ha ^^ , I been even c ^ Mastffjiiried tOif ^ ay QfLmy -person . , . . Would it were equally m > -W * power > to confute t ] d $ , iiihuman adversary on the subject of my blindness ! feitt iliisin ^ t . j jiEheft let us bfeafcit . To be blind is not miserable ; not to > be / ia ^ le . $ 0 |> earr : feUnd ^

    ness , that J& miserable . But why should I be unable : % o jbear that which at beijovei > every one to be prepared to bear , should the accident happen to himself vyithout repining ? Why should I be unable ( to bea ^ what ft $ kim ^ w may happen to any ^^ mortal being —what I know has actually happened to mme vf the niost eminent and the best of men on the records Qftiq ^ eia ciry ^ : MQr $ hall I mention those old poets , ancientest and wisest , whose e&lannty the gxnls are said to ; have , recompensed with far more excellingfgifts ^ . ^ 4 ; in en to . h » ve

    honoured with that high honour , as to choose rather to blame ? the goda ; themselves , . tbaja to impute their blindness to , them as a crime : What is handed down of the augur Tiresias is well known . Of Phineus , * thus sang ; Apo } - loniujs , in his Argonauties : ' ¦ ' ' ' : " — —bvh * i&eov o ^ r ^ cro koti A % ccvt ' b : ; lil ; ( : "Xpsibv o £ V £ EKe ^ fep ^ Mir ' cti > % puitoi&i , ¦ ' ¦ ' T ^ T ¦ ytdi olyvj ^ txi fkiev Mdrjvdtbi / iaXXfej / * Jk 8 * ? Xe ^ i ^^ X ^ yTwkspbv d ) d <><; : was

    called the Lady ofhis Colfe ^ . Mis hair ^ tviiicft of a light brown , * parted at the forctop , and hung down lij ^ ii Jife sho ulders , ^ ci ? 6 ^ bg to the picture which lie has given of Adam . He tva ^ , however ; not W tne h 6 l * bic stature , but rather' below the middle ftiiej '|^ co ' t 1 di ^ t 6 '• M # i •^ kha ^^ Il / >^ hok ^ i |) enti ^ n 9 ' him as having narrowly escaped from being short and thick . "—Johnson ' s Lives of the Poets .

    * i-. . I . . nor sometimes forget Those oiher too j £ qiiaird with me in fat £ ; So were I eciiiall'd with them in renown * Blind TJfai ^ Bk , aha ^ lind ; MsporiidC 5 l ; And ^ irbsiias , < ind JPhiiieu ^ prbpliiets old . Paradise Lost , Hk . iii .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/24/