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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... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ 10. Schemes of life often illusory on his disciples , in his sermon on the mount 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility 12. On the true honour of man . 91 94 96 ...
... Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ 10. Schemes of life often illusory on his disciples , in his sermon on the mount 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility 12. On the true honour of man . 91 94 96 ...
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... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation 9. On procrastination • 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , reproved • · 156 ib . · · 157 ib . 158 .. 159 · · ib ...
... Reflections on a future state , from a review of winter 8. Adam's advice to Eve , to avoid temptation 9. On procrastination • 10. That philosophy , which stops at secondary causes , reproved • · 156 ib . · · 157 ib . 158 .. 159 · · ib ...
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... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . 1. THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . 1. THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with ...
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... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly for- tune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of worldly for- tune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
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... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how ...
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