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 pages Describes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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... allowed to come under their notice , but such as are perfectly innocent ; and if , on all proper occasions , they were encouraged to peruse those which tend to inspire a due reverence for virtue , and an abhorrence of vice , as well as ...
... allowed to come under their notice , but such as are perfectly innocent ; and if , on all proper occasions , they were encouraged to peruse those which tend to inspire a due reverence for virtue , and an abhorrence of vice , as well as ...
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... allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by this management , one may always have a sufficient stock for carrying on the longest sentence ...
... allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by this management , one may always have a sufficient stock for carrying on the longest sentence ...
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... allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their passions ; the day of ruin , -let them take heed , and beware ! the day of irrecoverable ruin begins to draw nigh . Fortune is squandered ; health is broken ...
... allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their passions ; the day of ruin , -let them take heed , and beware ! the day of irrecoverable ruin begins to draw nigh . Fortune is squandered ; health is broken ...
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... allowed to extend its influence too far , it cor- rupts the whole character , and produces guilt , disgrace , and mise- ry . To be entirely destitute of it , is a defect . To be governed by it , is depravity . The proper adjustment of ...
... allowed to extend its influence too far , it cor- rupts the whole character , and produces guilt , disgrace , and mise- ry . To be entirely destitute of it , is a defect . To be governed by it , is depravity . The proper adjustment of ...
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... allowed the privilege of re- maining inexorable . But let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes , consider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the strongest lesson of mutual forbearance . Were ...
... allowed the privilege of re- maining inexorable . But let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes , consider forgiveness as a debt which they owe to others . Common failings are the strongest lesson of mutual forbearance . Were ...
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