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Title: The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell
Year: 1748 (1740s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Hill, Thomas, 1661-1734, ill Bond, William, d. 1735, supposed author Wallis, John, 1616-1703 Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, engraver
Subjects: Campbell, Duncan, 1680?-1730
Publisher: London: : Printed for, and sold by James Fleming...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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; fo thaf,jn doin^ me this, you have done a GeneralService to Mankind, Wfi^ffmmn C 1? A r. III. The -Method of Teaching Deaf and Dumb...Verfons to Write^ Ready and under/landr,\ a. Language. IT is, I muft confefs, in fome Meafureamazing to me, that Men (of any mo-derate Share of Learning) fliould not natu-rally conceive of themfelves a plain-Reafonfor this Art, and know how to account forthe Pradibilfl^y of it , the Moment theyhear the Propofition advanced ; the Rcafonsfor it are fo obvious to the very firft Con*-fideration we can make about it.. It willbe likewife as amazing to m^, that the mod:ignorant Ihould not conceive it, after (b plaina Reafon is given them for it, as I am nowgoing to fet down. To begin : How are Children ?t firfttaught a Language that can hear ? Are theynot taught by Sounds > And what are thofcSounds, but Tokens and Signs to the Ear,importing and fignifying fuch and. fiich aThing ? If then there c^n be Signs madeto the Ej-c, agreed by . the Party teach- ing
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ii of Mr. Duncan Caj^pbeiX* -39 ing the Child, that they fignify fuch and fuch•a Thing ; will not the Eye of the Child con-vey them to the Mind, as well as the Ear ?They are indeed different Marks to different•Senfes. ; but both the one and the other doequally-fignify the fame Things or Notions,•according to the Will of the Teacher, andxonfequently, muft have an equal Effed: withthe Perfon who is to be inftruded : For thothe Manners fignifying are different, theThings fignified are the lame. For Example : If, after having invented anAlphabet upon the Fingers, a Mafter alwayskeeps Company with a Deaf Child, andteaches it to call for w^hatfoever it wants, byfoch Motions of the Fingers, w hich if put downby Letters, (according to each invented Mo-tion of each Finger) would form in Writinga Word of a Thing, which it w^anted ; mightnot he, by thele regular Motions, teach itsEye the fame Notions of Things, as Soundsdo to the Ears of Children that hear ? TheManner of Teaching the Alpha

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