The Story of My Life

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Doubleday, Page, 1905 - 439 หน้า
 

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หน้า 353 - of Liberty." After she had read "The Battlefield," by the same author, I asked her -which verse she thought was the most beautiful. She replied, "I like this verse best: "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain. And dies among his worshipers.
หน้า 418 - systems and empires, conflicting theories and creeds, discoveries and inventions, it is a marvel how one can produce any great literary works at all. This is an age of workers, not of thinkers. The song to-day is: Let the dead past bury its dead. Act, act in the living present, Heart within and
หน้า 305 - 1887. I must write you a line this morning because something very important has happened. Helen has taken the second great step in her education. She has learned that everything has a name, and that the manual alphabet is the key to everything
หน้า 107 - and good will, with occasionally a splash of anger and here and there a healing spray of sympathy and pity. In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. < No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my bookfriends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and
หน้า 382 - of opinion among teachers of the deaf in regard to oral instruction. It seems very strange to me that there should be this difference of opinion; I cannot understand how any one interested in our education can fail to appreciate the satisfaction we feel in being able to express
หน้า 322 - and told her that seeds are eggs as truly as hens' eggs and birds' eggs—that the mother hen keeps her eggs warm and dry until the little chicks come out. I made her understand that all life comes from an egg. The mother bird lays her eggs in a nest and keeps them warm until the
หน้า 11 - Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle. Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and soundingline, and you waited,, with beating heart for something to happen?
หน้า 29 - joy and was full of meaning. She has never since let pass an opportunity to point out the beauty that is in everything, nor has she ceased trying in thought and action and example to make my life sweet and
หน้า 302 - and finds the yoke easy. It now remains my pleasant task to direct and mould the beautiful intelligence that is beginning to stir in the child-soul. Already people remark the change in Helen. Her father looks in at us morning and evening as he goes to and
หน้า 392 - person deprived of the visual sense to originate such an idea. In mentioning a visit to Lexington, Mass., she writes: "As we rode along we could see the forest monarchs bend their proud forms to listen to the little children of the woodlands whispering their secrets. The anemone, the wild violet, the

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