But even total blindness must not always be considered as an indication of operation proving useless, for sometimes the retina recovers its sensibility after removal of the cataract, and thus sight has been restored in very hopeless cases.
A man, aged 26, had laboured under blindness with exophthalmos for eighteen months.
Alas, what crass blindness has fallen upon this people, that they think the Son of God came into the world and suffered so much on account of sin in order that we might lead a shameful, dissolute and bestial life.
The blindness was excessive, and unless those days had been shortened we should all have grown into beasts!
If we are to draw a just conclusion from his blindness to the obvious psychological consequences of his words, it can only be, that Luther was no politician.
Colonel Bradshawe might amuse himself and his cronies by expressing astonishment at his blindness or complaisance, but Shortridge had good reasons for what he did.
If that be the verdict you find against our allies, I will not accuse you ofblindness to their faults.
The chief symptom of her heart being really tender towards Somerset consisted in her apparent blindnessto Charlotte's secret, so obviously suggested by her momentary agitation.
Paula's blindness to the advantages of the match, if she were blind, was that of a woman who wouldn't see, and the best argument was silence.
But only those who have weighed the importance of the diplomatic issues at stake, and have noted their warping influence on military affairs, have the right to accuse him of blindness and presumption.
Tertullian says: "It will then be proved that he has shown the same defect ofblindness of heresy both in that which he has erased and that which he has retained.
In hisblindness he hopes to drink health out of that bottle.
They have some such conception of the plain facts of human nature, ordinary financial values, and efficient methods of commerce as a man with color blindness has of the art of Corot.
Why trust they more to the blindness of the unskilful multitude, and to ignorance, than to the goodness of their cause?
The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them easy prey for us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit.
The blindnessof the masses and the tendency of their leaders to fall for oratory as empty as it is loud, will make them easy prey for us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit.
If Jesus can open the eyes of the blind, then, why is there blindness in the world?
If Jesus as a God opened the eyes of the blind, would it not have been kinder if he had prevented blindness altogether?
For some are kept off from Christ, not only by the obstinacy of their will, but by the blindness of their mind.
Study your misery, and cry to God to show you your confused blindness and ignorance, before you be so rife in calling God your Father, or teaching your children either so to say.
Whether it be a dark temptation Of the Evil One, or God's inspiration, We in our blindness cannot say.
Colorado sun from his eyes forever, adding the almost insurmountable barrier of total and hopeless blindnessto those of limited means and insufficient education.
All are subject to snow blindnessin the spring, and sores on the face from neglected frost bites are common.
Many are blind in one eye from what appears to be cataract or leucoma, but only one case of complete blindness was noticed.
The natives believe that this clipping of the back of the head prevents snow blindness in the spring.
This light color of the soil and brightness of the sun in Palestine are the cause of blindness to many of the inhabitants.
What causes so much blindness in the country in which Jesus lived?
The influence of Milton's blindness on his poetry was noticed by Lessing.
