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We shall first discuss the causes of adventitious deafness, together with the possibilities of its prevention and the likelihood of its diminution, and then consider the questions involved in congenital deafness ADVENTITIOUS DEAFNESS AND ITS CAUSES From three-fifths to two-thirds of the cases of deafness are caused adventitiously--by accident or disease.— The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
Of course, no such result as this could come about adventitiously, as successful combination calls for the exercise of judgment and taste; but the initiatory steps could be taken--the motive could enter art--without the conscious supervision of the human agent SUGGESTIONS BY FEATURES OF ARTIFICIAL OBJECTS Illustration: FIG.— Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466.
He expresses the unalloyed sensibility of an artist in terms of delicious contemporary life and gives us, adventitiously, romance.— Since Cézanne
In doing so he may, adventitiously, throw light on something more interesting than the past; he may adumbrate the outline of the coming movement.— Since Cézanne
From three-fifths to two-thirds of the cases of deafness are caused adventitiously -- by accident or disease.— The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
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