Casper Hauser: An Account of an Individual, Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to about the Age of Seventeen : Drawn Up from Legal DocumentsAllen and Ticknor, 1832 - 178 |
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... eye , nor on his soul ; and when he emerged from his lonesome dark- ness , he was like a new born child in respect to all which must be acquired by experience , whilst the instruments for acquiring that ex- perience , the natural ...
... eye , nor on his soul ; and when he emerged from his lonesome dark- ness , he was like a new born child in respect to all which must be acquired by experience , whilst the instruments for acquiring that ex- perience , the natural ...
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... eyes , he awoke , he gazed at the bright colors of the Captain's glittering uniform which he seemed to regard with childish satisfaction , and then groaned out his " Reuta , & c . " Captain von W— knew nothing of the stranger , nor ...
... eyes , he awoke , he gazed at the bright colors of the Captain's glittering uniform which he seemed to regard with childish satisfaction , and then groaned out his " Reuta , & c . " Captain von W— knew nothing of the stranger , nor ...
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... eyes had also an ex- pression of brutish obtuseness . * The forma- tion of his face altered in a few months al- most entirely ; his countenance gained ex- pression and animation , the prominent lower features of his face receded more ...
... eyes had also an ex- pression of brutish obtuseness . * The forma- tion of his face altered in a few months al- most entirely ; his countenance gained ex- pression and animation , the prominent lower features of his face receded more ...
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... eyes . When objects were brought more than ordinarily near to him , he gazed at them with a stupid look , which , only in particular instances , was expressive of curiosity and astonishment . He was in possession of only two words which ...
... eyes . When objects were brought more than ordinarily near to him , he gazed at them with a stupid look , which , only in particular instances , was expressive of curiosity and astonishment . He was in possession of only two words which ...
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... after- wards the nuptial procession of a peasant passed by the tower with a band of music close under his window . He suddenly stood listening , motionless as a statue ; his counten- ance appeared to be transfigured , and his eyes as 36.
... after- wards the nuptial procession of a peasant passed by the tower with a band of music close under his window . He suddenly stood listening , motionless as a statue ; his counten- ance appeared to be transfigured , and his eyes as 36.
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Strona 103 - It is, I think, agreed by all that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter.
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Strona 61 - ... to teach him to stand. This he repeated at several different times. The manner in which he effected this was the following : he seized him firmly around the breast, from behind, placed his feet behind Caspar's feet, and lifted these, as in stepping forward. " Finally, the man appeared once again, placed Caspar's bands over his shoulders, tied them fast, and thus carried him on his back out of the prison.
Strona 36 - Not only his mind, but many of his senses appeared at first to be in a state of torpor, and only gradually to open to the perception of external objects. It was not before the lapse of several days that he began to notice the striking of the steeple clock, and the ringing of the bells. This threw him into the greatest astonishment, which at first' was expressed only by his listening looks and by certain spasmodic motions of his countenance; but it was soon succeeded by a. stare of benumbed meditation....
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Strona 61 - It is evident, and other circumstances prove it to be a fact, that Caspar could not yet, at that time, distinguish the motion of ascending from that of descending, or height from depth, even as to the impressions made upon his own feelings; and that he was consequently still less able to designate this difference correctly by means of words. What Caspar calls a hill, must, in all probability, have been a pair of stairs. Caspar also thinks he can recollect, that, in being carried, he brushed against...
Strona 118 - But, in general, he was accustomed to ask, respecting almost every production of nature, who made that thing? Of the beauties of nature he had no perception. Nor did nature seem to interest him otherwise than by exciting his curiosity, and by suggesting the question, who made such a thing? When, for the first time, he saw a rainbow, its view appeared for a few moments to give him pleasure. But he soon turned away from it; and he seemed to be much more interested in the question, who made it? than...
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