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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... pleasing and honourable was the friendship be- tween David and Jonathan . " I am distressed for thee , my bro- ther Jonathan , " said the plaintive and surviving David ; " very pleasant hast thou been to me : thy love for me was ...
... pleasing and honourable was the friendship be- tween David and Jonathan . " I am distressed for thee , my bro- ther Jonathan , " said the plaintive and surviving David ; " very pleasant hast thou been to me : thy love for me was ...
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... pleasing him , and all who should please him , hopes of being rewarded . Every art of praise was tried , and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . 11. Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself ...
... pleasing him , and all who should please him , hopes of being rewarded . Every art of praise was tried , and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . 11. Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself ...
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... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not , like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not , like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
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... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not , like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not , like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
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... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not , like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
... pleasing exercise of the mind , than gratitude . It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance . It is not , like the practice of many other virtues , difficult and ...
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ADDISON ages offend amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray Aristippus Aristotle attend beauty behold BLAIR blessing block of marble cæsural pause Caius Verres character comfort death delightful Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments envy errours eternity ev'ry evil falling inflection father folly give gratitude happiness Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge judgement Jugurtha kind labours live look Lord mankind manner mercy Micipsa mind misery misfortunes morning calls nature never numbers Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions peace perfection perly person Phidias philosopher pleasing pleasure possess pow'r praise Praxiteles pride proper publick Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rising savage nations scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smiles sometimes sorrow soul sound spirit superiour sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion vanity verse vice virtue voice wisdom wise youth