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American Annals of the Deaf Volume 1-20.cAmerican Asylum for the Dumb

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Author: American Asylum for the Dumb
Number of Pages: 138 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130794588
File Name: American.Annals.of.the.Deaf.Volume.1-20.pdf
Download Link: American Annals of the Deaf Volume 1-20
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...every ass's heel--has been lifted. In treating of the "Delineation," I shall first give, as intelligibly as I may, the outlines of the theory which Van Helmont proposes, arranging the propositions in such order as seems to give completeness to the whole scheme, and disregarding the sequence of topics in the work itself. I shall add condensations of some of his numerous digressions which seem noteworthy, as illustrating the characteristics of the author, or for some other reason. I may add that the copy of the work which I have used is from the library of the New York Institution. The author gives the key to his work in the introductory lines on the reverse of the title page, in which he declares his book a guide to the knowledge of the language of nature, where all the motions of the tongue are ranged, each under its proper name. Let no one, he exclaims, judge the work by a superficial examination, since, like a complex melody, its many strains blending into one can be resolved only by the most patient attention. The body of the work, excluding the prefaces and the appendix, consists of seven colloquies between the author and a friend, who appears as interviewer, claqueur, chorus, and at last as enthusiastic disciple. The author starts with the firm conviction that the Hebrew tongue is the sum of all perfections; as superior to all other languages as they are to the chattering of parrots. This perfect language, then, must present the ideal alphabet, which to our author's apprehension is "vox depicta "--" Visible Speech "--a system which delineates every sound to the eye by a graphic representation of the physiological act which produces it. Accordingly our author sets himself to find such a system in the characters of the Hebre...

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