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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Page 17
... shade . NOTE . In the first chapter , the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of con- struction , and in all the diversity of punctuation . If well practised upon , he presumes they will fully prepare the young reader ...
... shade . NOTE . In the first chapter , the compiler has exhibited sentences in a great variety of con- struction , and in all the diversity of punctuation . If well practised upon , he presumes they will fully prepare the young reader ...
Page 20
... shade it will bear . 7. Many men mistake the love , for the practice of virtue ; and are not so much good men as the friends of goodness . 8. Genuine virtue has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a ...
... shade it will bear . 7. Many men mistake the love , for the practice of virtue ; and are not so much good men as the friends of goodness . 8. Genuine virtue has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a ...
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... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite ...
... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite ...
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... shaded with laurels and evergreens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science seemed to shed a glory ... shades of evening stretched over the landscape . I hastened homeward ; and resign- ed the night to silence and ...
... shaded with laurels and evergreens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science seemed to shed a glory ... shades of evening stretched over the landscape . I hastened homeward ; and resign- ed the night to silence and ...
Page 38
... shade ; and sometimes amused himself with plucking the flowers that covered the banks on either side , or the fruits that hung upon the branches . 6. At last , the green path began to decline from its first tenden- cy , and to wind ...
... shade ; and sometimes amused himself with plucking the flowers that covered the banks on either side , or the fruits that hung upon the branches . 6. At last , the green path began to decline from its first tenden- cy , and to wind ...
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