 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 pages
...of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : * but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 pages
...of their shape, or gusss what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : * but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 pages
...of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : * but upon being told what fiiings were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...their ' shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. ' He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, ' however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what ' things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1871 - 372 pages
...objects in * Cheselden says of his patient, who had been couched for cataract : " He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude." The language is ambiguous ; it may mean that he was unable at first to separate the... | |
 | Thomas Waugh Belcher - 1872 - 188 pages
...of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him : he knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude." He only gradually learned to know things by sight ; and used to help his want by feeling... | |
 | Alfred Ely Beach - 1876 - 614 pages
...through simple seeing. Of the earliest patient, Cheselden's, it is recorded that " he knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude," and the same is substantially true of all the others. Ten minutes after his eyes were... | |
 | Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet - 1881 - 338 pages
...confirmation of the truthfulness of this narrative occurs : " When he first saw, he knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but, being told what things were, whose forms he before knew from feeling, he would... | |
 | London (England). Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital - 1917 - 414 pages
...but thought all objects touched his eyes as those which he felt did his skin. " He knew not the Shape of any Thing, nor any one Thing from another, however different in Shape or Magnitude." " Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask ; but... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 350 pages
...of their fhape, or guefs what it was in any object that was " pleafmg to him. He knew not the fhape of any thing, nor any " one thing from another, however different in fhape or magni" tude ; but upon being told what things were, whofe form he be" fore knew from feeling,... | |
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... he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them; and (as he... 
