 | John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distance, that he thought all objects whatsoever touched his eyes (as he expressed it,) as what he felt did his skin, and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth or regular, though he could form no judgment of their... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...it; but, some months after, seeing by accident a Negro woman, he was struck with horror at the sight. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distance, that he thought all objects whatsoever touched his eyes (as he expressed it,) AS what he... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...but some months after seeing by accident a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment...expressed it, as what he felt did his skin; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 pages
...time he saw black it gave him great uneasiness ; yet, after a little while, he was reconciled to it. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distance, that he thought all objects whatsoever touched his eyes, (as he expressed it,) as what he... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...no remembrance of ever having seen, and was couched between thirteen and fourteen years of age.*. " When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment...expressed it) as what he felt did his skin, and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their... | |
 | 1824 - 666 pages
...Negro woman whom he met some months afterwards. When he first saw, he was so far from making any right judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (so he expressed it), as what he ielt did his skin. He thought no objects so agreeable as those which... | |
 | Art - Beauty culture - 1825 - 408 pages
...membrane of the pupil persisting?) and who was restored to sight by Mr. Cheselden by a surgical operation. When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment of distances, that he thought, " all objects whatever touched his eyes, as what he touched did his... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1826 - 208 pages
...when giving an account of a young man, whom he~'had restored to sight by couching for the cataract,) he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects touched his eyes, as he expressed it, as what he felt, did his skin ; and thought no objects so agreeable... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...was so far from ma" king any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touch" ed his eyes (as he expressed it) as what he felt did his skin." It seems to me J The strong impression which Mr. Ware's paper lias lately made on the public mind,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...the language used by his patient, Master W. " When the young gentleman first saw," says Cheselden, "he was so far from making any judgment about distances,...(as he expressed it) as what he felt did his skin." It seems to me inconceivable, that Cheselden could have meant this last phrase to be interpreted literally... | |
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When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes, as he expressed it, as what he felt did his skin; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular,... 
