[3] See on this subject Dr. Scott's interesting work, `The Deaf and Dumb,' 2nd edit. 1870, p. He says, "This contracting of natural gestures into much shorter gestures than the natural expression requires, is very common amongst the deaf and dumb. This contracted gesture is frequently so shortened as nearly to lose all semblance of the natural one, but to the deaf and dumb who use it, it still has the force of the original expression."英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
"Ah, gentlemen, if the governing classes could go down among the unfortunates! But no, they prefer to remain deaf to their appeals. It seems that a fatality impels them, like the royalty of the eighteenth century, toward the precipice which will engulf them, for woe be to those who remain deaf to the cries of the starving, woe to those who, believing themselves of superior essence, assume the right to exploit those beneath them! There comes a time when the people no longer reason; they rise like a hurricane, and pass away like a torrent. Then we see bleeding heads impaled on pikes.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
CHAPTER LXI. In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. Suppose we applied no more ingenuity to the instruction of deaf and dumb and blind children than we sometimes apply in our American public schools to the instruction of children who are in possession of all their faculties? The result would be that the deaf and dumb and blind would acquire nothing. They would live and die as ignorant as bricks and stones.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
I go next week to the Bath, for a deafness, which I have been plagued with these four or five months; and which I am assured that pumping my head will remove. This deafness, I own, has tried my patience; as it has cut me off from society, at an age when I had no pleasures but those left. In the meantime, I have, by reading and writing, made my eyes supply the defect of my ears. Madame H-----, I suppose, entertained both yours alike; however, I am very glad that you were well with her; for she is a good 'proneuse', and puffs are very useful to a young fellow at his entrance into the world.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1752》
Here is a great deal of company, and what is commonly called good company, that is, great quality. I trouble them very little, except at the pump, where my business calls me; for what is company to a deaf man, or a deaf man to company?英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1759-65》
"Can you tell me where a gentleman, Mr. Cardinal, is staying?" she asked. He was obviously very deaf; she had to shout. She repeated her question, adding. "He came from London to-day."
A stout middle-aged woman appeared. "What is it?" she asked. "The old man's stone deaf. He can't hear at all."
"I was wondering," said Maggie, "whether you could tell me where I could find a Mr.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
There is a limitation to what a child who's deaf, an infant who was born deaf, there is a limitation to what a child who's deaf, an infant who was born deaf,演讲 · 《Building the musical muscle ~ Charles Limb》