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 páginas Describes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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... beautiful lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will in some degree , elucidate what has been said on this subject . " The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places ; how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in ...
... beautiful lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will in some degree , elucidate what has been said on this subject . " The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places ; how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in ...
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... beautiful and romantick country , till curiosity began to give way to weariness ; and I sat down on the fragirent of a rock overgrown with moss ; where the rustling of the falling leaves , the dashing of waters , and the hum of the dis ...
... beautiful and romantick country , till curiosity began to give way to weariness ; and I sat down on the fragirent of a rock overgrown with moss ; where the rustling of the falling leaves , the dashing of waters , and the hum of the dis ...
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... beautiful scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6. Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the ...
... beautiful scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure . 6. Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood , deceit , and treachery , resembles the traveller in the ...
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... - tude of faults , and doubles the lustre of every virtue which it seems to hide : the perfections of men being like those flowers which appear more beautiful , when their leaves are a 44 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
... - tude of faults , and doubles the lustre of every virtue which it seems to hide : the perfections of men being like those flowers which appear more beautiful , when their leaves are a 44 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
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... beautiful , when their leaves are a little con- tracted and folded up , than when they are full blown , and display themselves , without any reserve , to the view . 3. We are some of us very fond of knowledge , and apt to value ...
... beautiful , when their leaves are a little con- tracted and folded up , than when they are full blown , and display themselves , without any reserve , to the view . 3. We are some of us very fond of knowledge , and apt to value ...
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