| Robert Blakey - 1850 - Liczba stron: 580
...was vastly surprised, asking how it could be that a large face could be expressed in so little room. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part...conceive that the whole house could look bigger. A year after his first seeing, being carried to Epsom Downs, and observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly... | |
| Richard Whately - 1853 - Liczba stron: 448
...first he could bear but very little sight, and the things he saw he thought extremely large ; but on seeing things larger, those first seen he conceived...not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. Before he was couched he expected little advantage from seeing worth undergoing an operation for, except... | |
| Francois Magendie - 1855 - Liczba stron: 570
...conceived less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw ; the room he was in, ho said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look any bigger. " When couched of his other eye, he says that objects at first appeared large to this eye,... | |
| Robley Dunglison - 1856 - Liczba stron: 768
...i. Sur les Fonctions du Cervean, i. 80, Paris, 1825. Physiologic de 1'HomuiP, edit, cit., i. 4(i(i. extremely large ; but, upon seeing things larger,...before the Royal Society of London, in 1826, by Dr. Wardrop.1 It was that of a lady born blind, who received sight at the age of forty-six, by the formation... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1857 - Liczba stron: 696
...imagine any dimensions beyond those immediately in view, and though he knew the room he was in was only a part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger than the room did. He said his principal reason for submitting to be couched was, " that he might be... | |
| Worthington Hooker - 1865 - Liczba stron: 468
...larger, those first seen he conceived less, never being able to imagine any lines beyoud the bounds that he saw ; the room he was in, he said, he knew to be...part of the house, yet he could not conceive that tho whole house could look bigger." Every infant, if it could express its ideas, could give us a narrative... | |
| Afternoon lectures - 1866 - Liczba stron: 242
...never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. He said every new object was a new delight, and the pleasure was so great that he wanted ways to express... | |
| 1866 - Liczba stron: 298
...never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. He said every new object was a new delight, and the pleasure was so great that he wanted ways to express... | |
| Adam Smith - 1869 - Liczba stron: 498
...time made to see distinctly. ' At first,' says the operator, ' he could bear but very little ' sight, and the things he saw he thought extremely large ;...house, yet he could not ' conceive that the whole house would look bigger.' It was unavoidable that he should at first conceive, that no visible object could... | |
| George Berkeley - 1871 - Liczba stron: 478
...things he saw he thought extreamly large ; but upon seeing things larger, those first seen he conceiv'd less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond...not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. Before he was couch'd he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for,... | |
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