Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808; with Copious Supplementary NotesF. Hodson, 1809 - 284 páginas |
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... Providence to prosper this endeavour , good , as is his usual mode of dealing with man , will be produced out of evil , and it will not have been in vain : indeed , this appears to me to be the only mode of " redeeming the time " * Vol ...
... Providence to prosper this endeavour , good , as is his usual mode of dealing with man , will be produced out of evil , and it will not have been in vain : indeed , this appears to me to be the only mode of " redeeming the time " * Vol ...
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... Providence to preserve my own mind from any material contamination ; and , if I can be of any service to my fellow - creatures , in this my generation , shall trust to reap my reward , by witnessing it , both in this life , and in the ...
... Providence to preserve my own mind from any material contamination ; and , if I can be of any service to my fellow - creatures , in this my generation , shall trust to reap my reward , by witnessing it , both in this life , and in the ...
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... PROVIDENCE , and given to Fortune or Fate . * 2. Another instance , wherein the Stage is highly presumptuous and censurable , is in at- tempting to know and exhibit the secrets of the invisible world . Angels , departed Spirits , the ...
... PROVIDENCE , and given to Fortune or Fate . * 2. Another instance , wherein the Stage is highly presumptuous and censurable , is in at- tempting to know and exhibit the secrets of the invisible world . Angels , departed Spirits , the ...
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... Providence of God ridiculous , and to lower them in the esteem of mankind . It is a practice by no means uncommon with many , to make a jest of the Scriptures , by giving Scripture words , phrases , characters , or incidents , a light ...
... Providence of God ridiculous , and to lower them in the esteem of mankind . It is a practice by no means uncommon with many , to make a jest of the Scriptures , by giving Scripture words , phrases , characters , or incidents , a light ...
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... Providence , And justify the ways of GOD to man . Par . Lost , B. I. 1. 17 . And at the beginning of the 7th Book , he invokes Urania and calls her goddess , l . 1—40 . POPE , in his Poem of Messiah , says , O Thou my voice inspire ...
... Providence , And justify the ways of GOD to man . Par . Lost , B. I. 1. 17 . And at the beginning of the 7th Book , he invokes Urania and calls her goddess , l . 1—40 . POPE , in his Poem of Messiah , says , O Thou my voice inspire ...
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