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 Seiten Describes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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... expect to find them connected and regular , sufficiently im- portant and impressive , and divested of every thing that is either trite or eccentrick . The frequent perusal of such composition naturally tends to infuse a taste for this ...
... expect to find them connected and regular , sufficiently im- portant and impressive , and divested of every thing that is either trite or eccentrick . The frequent perusal of such composition naturally tends to infuse a taste for this ...
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... expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leisure soon made him weary of himself , and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy . He was courteous and liberal : he gave all that ...
... expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leisure soon made him weary of himself , and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy . He was courteous and liberal : he gave all that ...
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... expect every thing we yet hope for . SECTION III . On Forgiveness . ADDISON . 1. THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of forgiveness . Let him who has never in his life done ...
... expect every thing we yet hope for . SECTION III . On Forgiveness . ADDISON . 1. THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of forgiveness . Let him who has never in his life done ...
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... expect every thing we yet hope for . SECTION III . On Forgiveness . ADDISON . 1. THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of forgiveness . Let him who has never in his life done ...
... expect every thing we yet hope for . SECTION III . On Forgiveness . ADDISON . 1. THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of forgiveness . Let him who has never in his life done ...
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... expect every thing we yet hope for . SECTION III . On Forgiveness . ADDISON . 1. THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of forgiveness . Let him who has never in his life done ...
... expect every thing we yet hope for . SECTION III . On Forgiveness . ADDISON . 1. THE most plain and natural sentiments of equity concur with divine authority , to enforce the duty of forgiveness . Let him who has never in his life done ...
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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