An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

We need not go out of our own Nation, for there we find living Instances. In the Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1670. Numb. 61. an account is given concerning Mr. Daniel Whaley of North-Hampton in England; who by an accident lost his Hearing when he was about five years of age; and so his Speech, not at once, but by degrees in about half a years time. In the Year 1661. The Learned and Ingenious Dr. ⟨p. 301⟩Wallis of Oxford, undertook to teach the Deaf Gentleman to speak and write. Nor did the Doctor fail in attaining his end. For in the space of one year, the Dumb man had read over great part of the English Bible, and had attained so much skill as to express himself intelligibly in ordinary affairs, to understand Letters written to him, and to write Answers to them. And when Foreigners out of curiosity came to visit him, he was able to pronounce the most difficult words of their Language (even polish it self) which any could propose unto him. Nor was this the only person on whom the Doctor showed his skill, but he has since done the like for another (a Gentleman of a very good Family) who did from his Birth want his Hearing. Likewise Dr. Holder in his late Book about the natural production of Letters, giveth Rules for the teaching of the Deaf and Dumb to speak.

We need not go out of our own Nation, for there we find living Instances. In the Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1670. Numb. 61. an account is given concerning Mr. Daniel Whaley of North-Hampton in England; who by an accident lost his Hearing when he was about five years of age; and so his Speech, not at once, but by degrees in about half a years time. In the Year 1661. The Learned and Ingenious Dr. ⟨p. 301⟩Wallis of Oxford, undertook to teach the Deaf Gentleman to speak and write. Nor did the Doctor fail in attaining his end. For in the space of one year, the Dumb man had read over great part of the English Bible, and had attained so much skill as to express himself intelligibly in ordinary affairs, to understand Letters written to him, and to write Answers to them. And when Forreigners out of curiosity came to visit him, he was able to pronounce the most difficult words of their Language (even polish it self) which any could propose unto him. Nor was this the only person on whom the Doctor shewed his skill, but he has since done the like for another (a Gentleman of a very good Family) who did from his Birth want his Hearing. Likewise Dr. Holder in his late Book about the natural production of Letters, giveth Rules for the teaching of the Deaf and Dumb to speak.