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Disablement. Evils
to which a man's voice can reach: though
he could receive answers only from the few people
who might may have learnt his language;
and from those only in the case of their being
close to him. Render him dumb and he cannot
address himself even to them out when out
of sight: except it be by a confused noise
which no mutilation not fatal to life can present
disable a man from making, and which may
be sufficient to make known his want of somebody in general that he wants
to speak to some body. to converse with.
If a man cannot read, the rend deafness renders
excludes him altogether from the use of
language, except just as to what is sufficient for
the satisfaction of his natural wants. He can
hardly in such case learn to converse with
his fingers for any other purposes at least in the present state of the finger language. For the
in the finger language near that the signs made by the fingers are signs of letters,
letters are signs of sounds or of parts of sounds,
tis only through the medium of sounds that
they represent ideas. The
The only marks by which it has ever been attempted
to exhibit represent ideas by sensible visible
signs immediately and without the intervention
of audible are the Egyptian Hieroglyphics:
but by these none nothing more is convey'd
to
Identifier: | JB/159/181/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
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159 |
punishment |
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181 |
disablement evils |
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004 |
egyptian hieroglyphics |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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caroline vernon |
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