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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... voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are di- versified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ...
... voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are di- versified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ...
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... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF PRO- NUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE . SECTION I. Proper Loudness of Voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF PRO- NUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE . SECTION I. Proper Loudness of Voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
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... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
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... voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds , both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . Propriety of Pronunciation . AFTER the fundamental ...
... voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds , both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . Propriety of Pronunciation . AFTER the fundamental ...
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... voice , which is perceived in utter- ing a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation correct and easy ...
... voice , which is perceived in utter- ing a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation correct and easy ...
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