The art of instructing the infant deaf and dumb. To which is annexed the method of educating mutes of a more mature age ... practised ... by the Abbé de l'Épée / By John Pauncefort Arrowsmith.

  • Arrowsmith, John Pauncefort.
Date:
1819
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Credit: The art of instructing the infant deaf and dumb. To which is annexed the method of educating mutes of a more mature age ... practised ... by the Abbé de l'Épée / By John Pauncefort Arrowsmith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We show him, that of these tenses there are several that are entitled perfect; as, li'i.' Perfect. %%d Perfect. Qrd Perfect. Ath Perfect. I loved. I have loved. I did love. I had loved'. The signs that ought to express them, present themselves naturally : after having carried the hand to the shoulder, the general sign for a perfect, we make the sign for first, or second, or third, or fourth, by the method given for nouns of number, and so indicate which perfect we mention, and which our pupil is to write, if we are dictating to him; and we find that he is never deceived. We do not leave him in ignorance of the use of these different perfects, some of which express a definite, some an indefinite time past; and others, a definite or indefinite time oast, anterior to another time that is past.