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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... mark that syllable by a stronger percussion , and to pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learn-- ed the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every word just the same accent in reading , as ...
... mark that syllable by a stronger percussion , and to pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learn-- ed the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every word just the same accent in reading , as ...
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... otherwise endure from a continuity of sound ; and that the understanding may have sufficient sime to mark the distinction of sentences , and their several members . There are two kinds of pauses : first , emphatical INTRODUCTION .
... otherwise endure from a continuity of sound ; and that the understanding may have sufficient sime to mark the distinction of sentences , and their several members . There are two kinds of pauses : first , emphatical INTRODUCTION .
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... mark the distinctions of sense . An emphatical pause is generally made after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Soinetimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in ...
... mark the distinctions of sense . An emphatical pause is generally made after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Soinetimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in ...
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... marks that strain or verse to be finished , rhyme renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to ob- serve it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it so as to make every line ...
... marks that strain or verse to be finished , rhyme renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to ob- serve it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it so as to make every line ...
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... marks that strain or verse to be finished , rhyme renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to ob- serve it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it so as to make every line ...
... marks that strain or verse to be finished , rhyme renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to ob- serve it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it so as to make every line ...
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