The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect Improve Their Language and Sentiments : and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDescribes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it
generally brings on the passionate and revengeful man , greater misery than he
can bring on the object of his resentment . 13 . The palace of virtue has , in all
ages ...
which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it
generally brings on the passionate and revengeful man , greater misery than he
can bring on the object of his resentment . 13 . The palace of virtue has , in all
ages ...
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On the contrary , foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost , than
what they possess ; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than
themselves , rather than on those who are under greater difficulties . All the real
pleasures ...
On the contrary , foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost , than
what they possess ; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than
themselves , rather than on those who are under greater difficulties . All the real
pleasures ...
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On the contrary , foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost , than
what they possess ; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than
themselves , rather than on those who are under greater difficulties . All the real
pleasures ...
On the contrary , foolish men are more apt to consider what they have lost , than
what they possess ; and to fix their eyes upon those who are richer than
themselves , rather than on those who are under greater difficulties . All the real
pleasures ...
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Nay , it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself , to see his creation for ever
beautifying in his eyes ; and drawing nearer to him , by greater degrees of
resemblance . 11 . Methinks this single consideration , of the progress of a finite
spirit to ...
Nay , it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself , to see his creation for ever
beautifying in his eyes ; and drawing nearer to him , by greater degrees of
resemblance . 11 . Methinks this single consideration , of the progress of a finite
spirit to ...
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I did not search long here , till I found the boat in which I had landed ; and my
companions also , whose terrours were even greater than mine . Our meeting
was not of that kind , where every one is desirous of telling his own happy escape
: it ...
I did not search long here , till I found the boat in which I had landed ; and my
companions also , whose terrours were even greater than mine . Our meeting
was not of that kind , where every one is desirous of telling his own happy escape
: it ...
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| Título | The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect Improve Their Language and Sentiments : and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the ... Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Compilado por | Lindley Murray |
| Editor | R. Pew, 1830 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 14 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 252 páginas |
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