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  • The laundress at the Perkins Institution secretly carried her off to give her a bath.
  • I also know a child at the Institution for the Deaf in Mississippi.
  • You know how the children at the Institution detest it.
  • Divine revelation and of a great institution like the Christian church suggested the possibility of enlisting scepticism in the service of dogmatic faith.
  • When the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, Helen and Miss Sullivan went to Tuscumbia.
  • We had scarcely arrived at the Perkins Institution for the Blind when I began to make friends with the little blind children.
  • On May 26th they arrived in Boston and went to the Perkins Institution; here Helen met the little blind girls with whom she had corresponded the year before.
  • A little story called "The Frost King," which I wrote and sent to Mr. Anagnos, of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was at the root of the trouble.
  • The institution has not attained great vogue.
  • The institution rapidly spread, counting twenty houses before his death and eighty before that of St Jeanne.
  • Many of those written before 1892 were published in the reports of the Perkins Institution for the Blind.
  • I was brought before a court of investigation composed of the teachers and officers of the Institution, and Miss Sullivan was asked to leave me.
  • Anti-clericals and freemasons, divorce being regarded not as a social institution but as a weapon against Catholicism.
  • I am glad thee is at the Institution; it is an excellent place.
  • As head of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, he heard of Laura Bridgman and had her brought to the Institution on October 4, 1837.
  • This letter is published in the Perkins Institution Report (1891), p. 204.
  • Director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind.
  • Among the public buildings are the town hall, classic in style; the market house, and literary and scientific institution, with a museum containing a fossil collection from the limestone of the locality.
  • Near the barracks is the Royal Artillery Institution, with a fine museum and a lecture hall.
  • Helen and Miss Sullivan returned to the Perkins Institution early in November.
  • All bishoprics, abbeys and priories were in the royal nomination, the canonical institution belonging to the pope.
  • The French institution of Prudhommes was introduced into Italy in 1893, under the name of Coltegi di Probiviri.
  • When she first wrote from Tuscumbia to Mr. Michael Anagnos, Dr. Howes son-in-law and his successor as Director of the Perkins Institution, about her work with her pupil, the Boston papers began at once to publish exaggerated accounts of Helen Keller.
  • Hemlock Cannon Beach, Oregon 97110(503) 436-1111www.moschowder.com The Driftwood Inn The Driftwood Inn and Lounge has been a Cannon Beach institution for more than 60 years.
  • Soups, salads, pizza and burgers can all be enjoyed at this Tampa Bay institution.
  • Along with the active life, Seattle has some fine restaurants that are open 24 hours. 13 Coins 13 Coins is an upscale restaurant with a 24-hour menu for late night and early morning guests. 13 Coins has been a Seattle dining institution since 1967.
  • This Maryland institution, and home of the first Octoberfest celebrated in the U.
  • Begin by viewing some French paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), a world famous institution.
  • Columbia A true Tampa institution since 1905, Columbia is the place for Spanish cuisine in Tampa.
  • In operation since 1984, and considered by many to have the best pizza in the area, the restaurant has become an institution with its fine and popular selection of pizzas as well as veal, chicken, and pasta dishes.
  • Ol' Heidelberg A Huntsville institution since 1972, this restaurant is popular for its hearty food and cozy atmosphere.
  • Featuring the area's finest piano bar, take out and offering a full catering and special event service, Polpo truly has become a Greenwich institution.
  • Run by the Eufemia family since day one, VinceAnna's is a veritable institution in the area where one can sample steak and seafood favorites, try one of the extensive house specialties, or enjoy one of their famous handmade pizzas baked on a brick hearth.
  • Joe and Joe Restaurant The famous Bronx institution, Joe and Joe Restaurant, has brought its unique brand of Italian homestyle cooking to Pearl River.
  • A dining institution in Ogdensburg, it offers, but of course; hamburgers.
  • Zagarella A Little Italy institution since 1993, Zagarella is ideally situated between the Convention Center and airport.
  • Ninfa's on Navigation The award-winning original Ninfa's on Navigation Boulevard is a Houston institution, serving authentic Mexican food on handmade tortillas.
  • The Tobacco Company Most Richmonders consider the Tobacco Company to be a local institution.
  • The inexpensive prices and casual décor make this west-side institution a family favorite.
  • Legal Seafood is a Boston institution with locations throughout the Greater Boston area.
  • From 2006 to 2009, this locally owned institution has been voted Best of Memphis for steak by Memphis Magazine readers.
  • Memphis, Tennessee 38104(901) 590-2828 restaurantiris.com Tom's BarBQ Delve into an authentic southern barbecue meal at this long-established institution of BarBQ.
  • Tommaso Ristorante Italiano Tommaso Ristorante Italiano is a North Beach institution that has been serving Italian fare in its basement location since 1935.
  • In addition to being a customer favorite, Texas Roadhouse was voted number one in Menu Variety and Menu Value for 2004s Restaurant & Institution Magazine's Choice in Chains Guest Survey.
  • Indianapolis, Indiana 46204(317) 636-7662www.bazbeaux.com/ Maxine's Chicken and Waffles An unusual combination, chicken and waffles share every plate at this downtown institution.
  • - The office of mayor of the palace was an institution peculiar to the Franks of the Merovingian period.
  • Attitude of Jesus.--So far, therefore, as the Sabbath existed for any end outside itself it was an institution to help every Jew to learn the law, and from this point of view it is.
  • We cannot tell when the Sabbath became dissociated from the month; but the change seems to have been made before the Book of the Covenant, which already regards the Sabbath simply as an institution of humanity and ignores the new moon.
  • Carnegie Institution, 1905); M.
  • The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward.
  • When the Perkins Institution closed in June, Helen and her teacher went south to Tuscumbia, where they remained until December.
  • She said that Maud was born deaf and lost her sight when she was only three months old, and that when she went to the Institution a few weeks ago, she was quite helpless.
  • As Mr. Anagnos was the head of a great institution, what he said had much more effect than the facts in Miss Sullivan's account on which he based his statements.
  • Careful examination was made of the books in raised print in the library of the Perkins Institution to learn if any extracts from this volume could be found there; but nothing was discovered.
  • The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest.
  • He made various charitable bequests by his will, and among them a gift of $50,000 to found an institution, opened as the "Astor House" in 1854, for the education of poor children and the relief of the aged and the destitute in his native village in Germany.
  • In all cases canonical institution (which confers ecclesiastical jurisdiction) is reserved to the pope or the bishops.
  • The first president of the institution (from 1873 to 1881) was the distinguished geologist, Edward Orton (1829-1899), who was professor of geology from 1873 to 1899.
  • Mr. Anagnos was delighted with "The Frost King," and published it in one of the Perkins Institution reports.
  • I was permitted to spend a part of each day in the Institution library, and to wander from bookcase to bookcase, and take down whatever book my fingers lighted upon.
  • Mr. Anagnos wrote in the report of the Perkins Institution, dated November 27, 1888: At my urgent request, Helen, accompanied by her mother and her teacher, came to the North in the last week of May, and spent several months with us as our guests....
  • In 1892 appeared the Perkins Institution report for 1891, containing a full account of Helen Keller, including many of her letters, exercises, and compositions.
  • PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND SO.
  • In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must conform.
  • An institution upholding honor, the source of emulation, is one similar to the Legion d'honneur of the great Emperor Napoleon, not harmful but helpful to the success of the service, but not a class or court privilege.
  • Among the works of benevolence with which his name is associated are the establishment of a hospital for galley slaves at Marseilles.
  • The common people, whom he had always favoured at the expense of the boyars, thereupon implored him to come back on his own terms. He consented to do so, but entrenched himself within a peculiar institution, the oprichina or "separate estate."
  • In addition to this Bedouin organization there was the curious institution of an elective monarchy, some of whose kings are catalogued in Gen.
  • He connects the Christian ministry, not with the worship of the Temple, in which were priests and sacrificial ritual, but with that of the synagogue, which was a local institution providing spiritual edification by the reading and exposition of Scripture.'
  • Four different grades of institution for agricultural instruction are under state direction: (I) farm-schools and schools of apprenticeship in dairying, &c., to which the age of admission is from 14 to 16 years; (2) practical schools, to which boys of from 13 to 18 years of age are admitted.
  • The number of the inmates is decreasing; but the institution is an expensive one.
  • The most important free institution in this class is the cole des Sciences Politiques, which prepares pupils for the civil services and teaches a great number of political subjects, connected with France and foreign countries, not included in the state programmes.
  • The museum was the first institution of its kind in Greece, but the collection was transferred to Athens in 1834.
  • On the west side are the institution of the sisters of St Vincent; the Ratisbon school; the Montefiore hospice; the British ophthalmic hospital of the knights of St John; the convent and church of the Clarisses; and the Moravian leper hospital.
  • In the last stage (c) the exclusion of the ordinary Levites from all share in the priesthood of the sons of Aaron is looked upon as a matter of course, dating from the institution of priestly worship by Moses.
  • The museum (a state institution), formerly housed in the same building as the library, was transferred in 1897 to a new building in the suburb of Mustapha Superieur.
  • His Life of his father (1898), his Address to London Chamber of Commerce on " Imperial Telegraphic Communication " (1902), Lecture to Royal United Service Institution on " Submarine Telegraphy " (1907), Lectures to Royal Naval War College (1910) and R.E.
  • 2 See " A Royal Institution Discourse," by G.
  • Crispi, whose strong anti-clerical convictions did not prevent him from regarding the papacy as preeminently an Italian institution, was determined both to prove to the Catholic world the practical independence of the government of the Church and to retain for Rome so potent a centre of universal attraction as the presence of the future pope.
  • It has a public library, which has belonged to the township since 1857; and here are the Lyman School for Boys, a state industrial institution (opened in 1886 and succeeding a state reform school opened in 1846), and the Westboro Insane Hospital (homoeopathic, 1884), which is under the general supervision of the State Board of Insanity.
  • The institution owed its origin to federal land grants; it is maintained by the state, the United States, and by small fees paid by the students; tuition is free in all colleges except the college of law.
  • The teachers at the Institution expressed the opinion that the description did not appear in any book in raised print in that library; but one lady, Miss Marrett, took upon herself the task of examining books of poems in ordinary type, and was rewarded by finding the following lines in one of Longfellow's minor poems, entitled 'Snowflakes':
  • Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it.
  • Nu Yalk Pizza has been a family-owned, a Reno institution since 1978.
  • Their first and most notable victim was Philip, the saintly metropolitan of Moscow, who was strangled for condemning the oprichina as an unchristian institution, and refusing to bless the tsar (1569).
  • Dr Ellis had pipes (now preserved in the Royal Institution, London) made to reproduce both these pitches at 31 in.
  • Unless the Sabbath was already an institution peculiarly Jewish, it could not have served as a mark of distinction from heathenism.
  • In 1881 Leroy-Beaulieu was elected professor of contemporary history and eastern affairs at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, becoming director of this institution on the death of Albert Sorel in 1906, and in 1887 he became a member of the Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
  • In December, 1887, appeared the first report of the Director of the Perkins Institution, which deals with Helen Keller.
  • Very early in her life she became almost totally blind, and she entered the Perkins Institution October 7, 1880, when she was fourteen years old.
  • Mr. Wilson, a teacher at Florence, and a friend of the Kellers', studied at Harvard the summer before and went to the Perkins Institution to learn if anything could be done for his friend's child.
  • In a letter to a friend at the Perkins Institution, dated May 17, 1889, she gives a reproduction from one of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, which I had read to her not long before.
  • Mo's Restaurant Housed in a ramshackle little building on Hemlock Street, Mo's Restaurant has been a local institution for more than 50 years.
  • Main Street For those who enjoy the convenience of dining at a familiar institution, Applebee's, Domino's and Bob Evans restaurants have locations within the town limits of Dunkirk.
  • Bizarre hippie paintings, cheap pitchers of beer and delicious, piping hot garlic bread all add to the appeal of this Portland institution.
  • Another institution is the college of San Nicolas de Hidalgo, which was.
  • From 1879 to 1884 he was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in the university of Cambridge, in succession to Clerk Maxwell; and in 1887 he accepted the post of professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, which he resigned in 1905.
  • But this certainly was not the leading point of view with the mass of the Rabbins; 1 and at any rate it is quite certain that the synagogue is a post-exilic institution, and therefore that the Sabbath in old Israel must have been entirely different from the Sabbath of the Scribes.
  • The Sabbath did not share the same fate, but with the abolition of local sacrifices it became for most Israelites an institution of humanity divorced from ritual.
  • Among institutions are the Battersea Polytechnic, the Royal Masonic Institution for girls, founded in 1788, and Church of England and Wesleyan Training Colleges.
  • Naturalists who deal specially with museum collections have been compelled, it is true, for other reasons to attach an increasing importance to what is called the type specimen, but they find that this insistence on the individual, although invaluable from the point of view of recording species, is unsatisfactory from the point of view of scientific zoology; and propositions for the amelioration of this condition of affairs range from a refusal of Linnaean nomenclature in such cases, to the institution of a division between master species for such species as have been properly revised by the comparative morphologist, and provisional species for such species as have been provisionally registered by those working at collections.
  • The growth of a special " original " jurisdiction at Constantinople, which perhaps developed earlier than the corresponding institution at Rome, may be traced to the fact that bishops from all parts were constantly in Constantinople.
  • About the same time the cycle of paschal solemnities was extended to the ninth week before Easter by the institution of stational masses for Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays.
  • The chemists and druggists, recognizing that no institution for the systematic education and examination of chemists and druggists existed in England, and that no proof could be given that each individual possessed the necessary qualifications, decided that this objection must be met, and that pharmacy must be placed upon a more scientific footing.
  • The traditions would seem to point to the institution of new principles in the religion of Yahweh, and would associate with it not merely Moses but those foreign elements which are subsequently found in Israel and Judah.
  • But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
  • Although slavery still exists and the low price of slaves speaks to the low value of a human life, the legal institution of slavery is gone.
  • Just before the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, it was arranged that my teacher and I should spend our vacation at Brewster, on Cape Cod, with our dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins.
  • But what he really said in his address to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in 1867 was that it was necessary "to induce our future masters to learn their letters."
  • Collegiate institution in Mexico; in it Hidalgo once taught and Morelos was a student.
  • The college authorities did not allow Miss Sullivan to read the examination papers to me; so Mr. Eugene C. Vining, one of the instructors at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was employed to copy the papers for me in American braille.
  • But jurisdiction which was not necessarily incident to the office of the official principal, that is to say voluntary jurisdiction, such as the granting of licences and institution to benefices, and criminal jurisdiction over clerks (and probably over laymen), the bishop could reserve to himself.
  • TO MR. JOHN HITZ 14 Coolidge Ave., Cambridge, Nov. 26, 1900. ...--has already communicated with you in regard to her and my plan of establishing an institution for deaf and blind children.
  • Unlike the latter, they reproduced the institution of district conciliation boards in addition to the arbitration court; but these boards were a failure here as they were in New Zealand, and after 1903 they fell into disuse.
  • The college authorities would not permit Miss Sullivan to read the examination papers to me; so Mr. Eugene C. Vining, one of the instructors at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was employed to copy the papers for me in braille.
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