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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SECTION III . Due Degree of Slowness . In order to express ourselves distinctly ,
moderation is requisite with regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of
speech confounds all articula . tion , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to
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SECTION III . Due Degree of Slowness . In order to express ourselves distinctly ,
moderation is requisite with regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of
speech confounds all articula . tion , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to
...
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The first and second pauses are accompanied by an inflection of voice , that
gives the he tion of something further to complete the sense : the inflection
attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed . • The preceding
example is ...
The first and second pauses are accompanied by an inflection of voice , that
gives the he tion of something further to complete the sense : the inflection
attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed . • The preceding
example is ...
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Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situa . tion which flatters
his passions , but which corrupts his princi . ples , disorders his temper , and
finally oversets his virtue ? 4 . What misery does the vicious man secretly endure !
Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situa . tion which flatters
his passions , but which corrupts his princi . ples , disorders his temper , and
finally oversets his virtue ? 4 . What misery does the vicious man secretly endure !
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I congratulate the man who is pogsessed of it : for , amidst all the vicissitudes and
calamities of the present state , that man enjoys an inexhaustible fund of consola
. tion , of which it is not in the power of fortune to deprive him . 2 . There is not a ...
I congratulate the man who is pogsessed of it : for , amidst all the vicissitudes and
calamities of the present state , that man enjoys an inexhaustible fund of consola
. tion , of which it is not in the power of fortune to deprive him . 2 . There is not a ...
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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 | 204 páginas |
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