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 páginas Describes the wonders of light and optics, exploring such developments as lasers, fiber optics, and holography. |
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... render his voice louder , without altering the key : and we shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that pitch of voice , to which in conversation we are accustomed . Whereas by setting out NOTE ...
... render his voice louder , without altering the key : and we shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that pitch of voice , to which in conversation we are accustomed . Whereas by setting out NOTE ...
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... rendered inca- pable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true har- mony of utterance ... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing , But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and ...
... rendered inca- pable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true har- mony of utterance ... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing , But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and ...
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... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the epiphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound the meaning wholly . Emphasis may be divided into the Superiour and the Inferiour emphasis . The superiour ...
... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the epiphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound the meaning wholly . Emphasis may be divided into the Superiour and the Inferiour emphasis . The superiour ...
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... render his modulation correct and easy ; and , for this purpose , should form it upon the model of the most judi- sious and accurate speakers . As emphasis often falls on words in different parts of viii INTRODUCTION .
... render his modulation correct and easy ; and , for this purpose , should form it upon the model of the most judi- sious and accurate speakers . As emphasis often falls on words in different parts of viii INTRODUCTION .
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... render attempts to render every thing he expresses of high impor- tance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of ...
... render attempts to render every thing he expresses of high impor- tance , by a multitude of strong emphases , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of ...
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