CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

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1

The Art of instructing the Infant Deaf and

Dumb.

CHAPTER I.

The manner in which the Instruction of the Infant

Deaf and Dumb is to commence, by teaching them

the Alphabet and the meaning of Words ....

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25

CHAPTER II.

The manner in which the Infant Deaf and Dumb are

taught to Write, and understand short Sentences 62

CHAPTER III.

The manner in which the Infant Deaf and Dumb are

instructed in Religion and Geography..

CHAPTER IV.

The manner of instructing the Infant Deaf and Dumb

in Arithmetic

179

CHAPTER V.

Observations upon Grammar, and of teaching the Deaf

and Dunb Utterance .

The Method of educating Mutes of a more ma-

ture Age which has been practiced with so

much success on the Continent by the Abbé

de l'Epée.

The manner in which the Instruction of the Deaf and

Dumb is to commence.

94

CHAPTER II.

The manner in which the Instruction of the Deaf and

Dumb is continued...

104

ARTICLE I.

Concerning the Declension of Nouns

105

SECTION I.

Of Articles and the Signs corresponding to them .... ib.

SECTION II.

Of Cases, Numbers and Genders, and the Signs corres-

ponding to them.

107

ARTICLE II.

Dfference of Nouns, Substantive and Adjective, and

Signs corresponding to them

109

ARTICLE III.

Of Nouns Adjective terminating in able and ible, and

of the Signs corresponding to them.

111

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ARTICLE IV.

Of Nouns Adjective in the Positive, Comparitive, Su-

perlative, and Excessive Degrees, and of the Signs

corresponding to them

ARTICLE V.

Of Substantives formed from adjectives termed Ab-

stract Qualities, and of the Signs agreeing to

them

116

ALTICLE VI.

Of Nouns of Number, and of their corresponding

Signs

117

CHAPTER III.

On the Tenses of the Indicative of the Verb to be

119

CHAPTER IV.

Of Pronouns....

121

ARTICLE 1.

Of Personal Conjunctive and Possessive Pronouns, and

of the Signs appropriate to them

ARTICLE II.

Of Demonstrative Pronouns, and of their appropriate

Signs

125

ARTICLE III.

Of Interrogative and Relative Pronouns, and their ap-

propriate Signs

126

ARTICLE IV.

Of certain Words cailed Improper Pronouns, and of the

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CHAPTER V.

Of Verbs

.. 138

ARTICLE I.

Of the Application of Signs to the Tenses of Verbs... 134

ARTICLE II.

Of the Application of Signs to the Moods of Verbs... 139

ARTICLE III.

Of Active, Passive, Neuter, and Reciprocal Verbs .... 146