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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... vice , as well as to animate them with sentiments of piety and goodness . Such impressions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their attainments , could scarcely fail of attending them through life , and of producing ...
... vice , as well as to animate them with sentiments of piety and goodness . Such impressions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their attainments , could scarcely fail of attending them through life , and of producing ...
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... vice greater than those of virtue 11. On contentment . 12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy • 13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty 14. Moderation in our wishes recommended . Page . 17 ...
... vice greater than those of virtue 11. On contentment . 12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy • 13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty 14. Moderation in our wishes recommended . Page . 17 ...
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... - ness : intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . 8. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , 22 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
... - ness : intemperance , by enervating them , ends generally in misery . 8. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , 22 Part 1 . THE ENGLISH READER .
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... Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . 4. An elevated genius , employed in little things , appears ( to use the simile of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening declina- tion : he remits ...
... Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . 4. An elevated genius , employed in little things , appears ( to use the simile of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening declina- tion : he remits ...
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... vice . The irregular gratifications , into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the beginning , with scrupulous- ness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these ...
... vice . The irregular gratifications , into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the beginning , with scrupulous- ness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these ...
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