There is the same type of antithesis in both cases; for just as blindness is opposed to sight, so is being blind opposed to having sight. Then he arose, shook the flashing blindness from his eyes, and took hold of the boat.
Beaumont, Texas. Beaumont (/ËboÊmÉnt/ BOH-mont) is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the BeaumontâPort Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Located on the Neches River and about 90 miles from Houston, the city had a population of 118,296 at the 2010 census making it the twenty-fourth most populous city in the state of Texas. Beaumont's early history was centered around the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892 Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first rice mill in the state, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; he also organized an irrigation authority to support rice culture.