A manual of the diseases of the eye / by C. MacNamara.

  • Macnamara, Nottidge Charles, 1832-1918.
Date:
1876
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Credit: A manual of the diseases of the eye / by C. MacNamara. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SNELLEN'S TEST TYPES, li. We an know that light comei from the lun. But what is light? It B»cd to be thoaght that the ray» of light were things loo smaU to aee, which came out from the sun aod darted down to the earth, and that there were auch a nomber of them« and they came ao fut, a« to look like one sheet of light. But it has been found that this cannot be the case- For one thing, ercn though the rays wers more fine than air, aod far too small to be seen, yet conaing so far and so fast they would hare force enough to hurt our eye when they got into it, huX thca what i» ligUtF U oeeois to dart down 2. Bhiue the progress of defection and the decay of national enthusiasm, he determined to be beforehand with those who were now his enemies. He accepted the offer ot negotiation from Cerialis. The Eoman general was eager to grant a fall pardon, and to re-enlist so brave a soldier in the service of the empire. A colloquy was agreed upon. The bridge across the Nabalia was broken asunder in the middle, and Cerialis and Civilis met upon the severed sides. The placid stream, by which Bomaa enterprise had connected 3. remarkable foreshadowing of the future conflict with Spain, through which the Batavian republic, fifteen centuries later, was to be founded. The characters, the events, the amphibious battles, desperate sieges, slippery alliaifces, the traits of generosity, audacity, and cruelty, the generous confidence, the broken faith seem so closely to repeat them- selves, that History appears to present the self-same drama played on selfsame drama played over and over again, with but a change of actors and of costume. There is more than a fanciful resemblance between Civilis and William the Silent, two heroes of ancient German Stock, who had learned the arts of war and peace in the service of a foreign and haughty world-empire. Determination,