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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    before them, who take not the measures they might take to make themselves under- stood. It is in vain to answer that these persons know not the dispositions necessary to be given to their organs in order to render the words they utter sensible to the deaf and dumb;—^^granted that they do not know them ;—that they are a perfect mystery to them; still they give these dispositions to their organs mechanically, without which they could not pronounce at all; and the deaf and dumb, properly trained, will never fail to perceive them, provided the mouth be opened sufficiently, and people speak slowly, giving to each syllable a separate stress. This is no more than a piece of complai- sance which we observe towards foreigners in the rudiments of our language, who, on their side are equally civil towards us, v/hen their language is not familiar to us.