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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... speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may there fore render his voice louder , without altering the key : and we shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that ...
... speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may there fore render his voice louder , without altering the key : and we shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that ...
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... speaking key . It should be a constant rule never to utter a greater quantity of voice than we can afford without pain to ourselves , and without any extraordinary effort . As long as we keep within these bounds , the other organs of ...
... speaking key . It should be a constant rule never to utter a greater quantity of voice than we can afford without pain to ourselves , and without any extraordinary effort . As long as we keep within these bounds , the other organs of ...
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... speaking , must be determined en- tirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike : but as to the in- feriour emphasis , taste alone seems to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . Among the number of persons ...
... speaking , must be determined en- tirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike : but as to the in- feriour emphasis , taste alone seems to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . Among the number of persons ...
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... speak English without a provincial note , that have not an accurate use of tones , when they utter their sentiments in ... speaking or reading , are a total cessation of the voice , during a perceptible , and in many cases , a measurable ...
... speak English without a provincial note , that have not an accurate use of tones , when they utter their sentiments in ... speaking or reading , are a total cessation of the voice , during a perceptible , and in many cases , a measurable ...
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... speak , when engaged in real and earnest discourse with others . The following sentence exemplifies the suspending and the closing pauses : " Hope , the balm of life , sooths us under every misfortune . " The first and second pauses are ...
... speak , when engaged in real and earnest discourse with others . The following sentence exemplifies the suspending and the closing pauses : " Hope , the balm of life , sooths us under every misfortune . " The first and second pauses are ...
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