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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... leave the invention of the language of emotion to man ; but impressed it himself upon our nature , in the same manner as he has done with regard to the rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feelings , by various ...
... leave the invention of the language of emotion to man ; but impressed it himself upon our nature , in the same manner as he has done with regard to the rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feelings , by various ...
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... leaves it open to every pleasing sensation . 3. Moderate and simple pleaures relish high with the tempe- rate in the midst of his studied refinements , the voluptuary lan- guishes . 4. Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our ...
... leaves it open to every pleasing sensation . 3. Moderate and simple pleaures relish high with the tempe- rate in the midst of his studied refinements , the voluptuary lan- guishes . 4. Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our ...
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... leaves , the dashing of waters , and the hum of the dis- tant city , soothed my mind into a most perfect tranquillity ; and sleep insensibly stole upon me , as I was indulging the agreeable reveries , which the objects around me ...
... leaves , the dashing of waters , and the hum of the dis- tant city , soothed my mind into a most perfect tranquillity ; and sleep insensibly stole upon me , as I was indulging the agreeable reveries , which the objects around me ...
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... leave to change the allusion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education , which Aristotle has brought to explain his doc- trine of substantial forms , when he tells us that a statue ...
... leave to change the allusion so soon upon him , I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education , which Aristotle has brought to explain his doc- trine of substantial forms , when he tells us that a statue ...
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... multi- tude of faults , and doubles the lustre of every virtue which it seems to hide : the perfections of men being like those flowers which appear more beautiful , when their leaves are a 44 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
... multi- tude of faults , and doubles the lustre of every virtue which it seems to hide : the perfections of men being like those flowers which appear more beautiful , when their leaves are a 44 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
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