The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers. Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inclucate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDurrie & Peck, 1830 - 204 pages Describes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
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... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it but its appli- cation is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . * By modulation is meant that ...
... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it but its appli- cation is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . * By modulation is meant that ...
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... less qualified to live well to - morrow . 3. Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situa- tion which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his princi- ples , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ...
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . 3. Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situa- tion which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his princi- ples , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his virtue ...
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... less . 5. If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , for- tunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
... less . 5. If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons envied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , for- tunes , and dignities , ) - I ...
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... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its plea- sures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete en ...
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its plea- sures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete en ...
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