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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... thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will ...
... thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will ...
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... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note on which we 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 ...
... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note on which we 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 ...
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... thing to be found in com- mon discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give greater variety to the modulation . * Notwithstanding this ...
... thing to be found in com- mon discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give greater variety to the modulation . * Notwithstanding this ...
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... things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understanding . " or , as Some sentences are ... thing he expresses of high impor- tance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay little regard to ...
... things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understanding . " or , as Some sentences are ... thing he expresses of high impor- tance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay little regard to ...
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... things . For when read- ing becomes strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner , and must be highly improper , as well as give offence to the hearers ; because it is incon- sistent with that delicacy and modesty , which are ...
... things . For when read- ing becomes strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner , and must be highly improper , as well as give offence to the hearers ; because it is incon- sistent with that delicacy and modesty , which are ...
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