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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... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to senten ...
... common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will readily apply that habit , and the improvements he has made , to senten ...
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... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to ima- gine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is ...
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to ima- gine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is ...
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... out- running the speaker , must render every such performance insipid and fatiguing , But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it INTRODUCTION .
... out- running the speaker , must render every such performance insipid and fatiguing , But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it INTRODUCTION .
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... common discourse . Many per- sons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them and protract them ; they ...
... common discourse . Many per- sons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them and protract them ; they ...
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... common speech , but , in some degree , more faintly characterized . Let those tones which signify any disagreeable passion of the mind , be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions ; and , on all occasions ...
... common speech , but , in some degree , more faintly characterized . Let those tones which signify any disagreeable passion of the mind , be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions ; and , on all occasions ...
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