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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If we would judge whether a man is reaily happy , it is not solely to his houses
and lands , to his equipage and his retinue we are to look . Unless we could see
farther , and discern what joy , or what bitterness , his heart feels , we can ...
If we would judge whether a man is reaily happy , it is not solely to his houses
and lands , to his equipage and his retinue we are to look . Unless we could see
farther , and discern what joy , or what bitterness , his heart feels , we can ...
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Collected within itself , it stands unmoved by their impotent assaults ; and with
generous pity , rather than with anger , looks down on their unworthy conduct . It
has been truly said , that the greatest man on earth can no sooner commit an
injury ...
Collected within itself , it stands unmoved by their impotent assaults ; and with
generous pity , rather than with anger , looks down on their unworthy conduct . It
has been truly said , that the greatest man on earth can no sooner commit an
injury ...
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Collected within itself , it stands unmoved by their impotent assaults ; and with
generous pity , rather than with anger , looks down on their unworthy conduct . It
has been truly said , that the greatest man on earth can no sooner commit an
injury ...
Collected within itself , it stands unmoved by their impotent assaults ; and with
generous pity , rather than with anger , looks down on their unworthy conduct . It
has been truly said , that the greatest man on earth can no sooner commit an
injury ...
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To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength ; to consider that she
is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and brighten to all eternity . that
she will be still aduing virtue to virtue , and knowledge to knowledge ; / carries in
...
To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength ; to consider that she
is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory , and brighten to all eternity . that
she will be still aduing virtue to virtue , and knowledge to knowledge ; / carries in
...
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... of others , he may do what he pleases in his particular station of life . 6 . At the
same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of , I
look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little , mean , ungenerous minds .
... of others , he may do what he pleases in his particular station of life . 6 . At the
same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of , I
look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little , mean , ungenerous minds .
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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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