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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... instances , elegance of diction , distinguish them . They are ex- tracted from the works of the most correct and elegant writers . From the sources whence the sentiments are drawn , the reader may expect to find them connected and ...
... instances , elegance of diction , distinguish them . They are ex- tracted from the works of the most correct and elegant writers . From the sources whence the sentiments are drawn , the reader may expect to find them connected and ...
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... instance , would use the inferiour emphasis alike , either as to place or quantity . Some persons , indeed , use scarcely any degree of it : and others do not scruple to carry it far beyond any thing to be found in com- mon discourse ...
... instance , would use the inferiour emphasis alike , either as to place or quantity . Some persons , indeed , use scarcely any degree of it : and others do not scruple to carry it far beyond any thing to be found in com- mon discourse ...
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... instance exhibits that pause with a degree of ca- dence in the voice : " If content cannot remove the disquietudes of mankind , it will at least alleviate them . " The suspending pause is often , in the same sentence , attended with ...
... instance exhibits that pause with a degree of ca- dence in the voice : " If content cannot remove the disquietudes of mankind , it will at least alleviate them . " The suspending pause is often , in the same sentence , attended with ...
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... instance , are often terminated in this manner : as , " Am 1 ungrateful ' ? " " Is he in earnest ' ? " But where a ... instances , all the inflections are not marked . Such only are distinguished , as are most striking , and will best ...
... instance , are often terminated in this manner : as , " Am 1 ungrateful ' ? " " Is he in earnest ' ? " But where a ... instances , all the inflections are not marked . Such only are distinguished , as are most striking , and will best ...
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... instance , in the following lines of Milton , " What in me is dark , " Illumine ; what is low , raise and support . " The sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to ...
... instance , in the following lines of Milton , " What in me is dark , " Illumine ; what is low , raise and support . " The sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to ...
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