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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... believe there never was an instance of any one of the actors performing afterwards upon a public Stage , much less of em- bracing the profession of a player . One thing , I must say , greatly to our credit , was the care which * DR ...
... believe there never was an instance of any one of the actors performing afterwards upon a public Stage , much less of em- bracing the profession of a player . One thing , I must say , greatly to our credit , was the care which * DR ...
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... believe , that beings , possessing such power , ever existed , is contrary to what is taught us in the Sacred Writings , and to the ideas which we are there taught to entertain of the perfections of God : and although wicked persons ...
... believe , that beings , possessing such power , ever existed , is contrary to what is taught us in the Sacred Writings , and to the ideas which we are there taught to entertain of the perfections of God : and although wicked persons ...
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... believe , hath had a very considerable part in influencing the public mind with respect to the state of the Negroes , and the infamous traffic of the Slave - trade : Nor hath Religion , the purity and superiority of the CHRISTIAN ...
... believe , hath had a very considerable part in influencing the public mind with respect to the state of the Negroes , and the infamous traffic of the Slave - trade : Nor hath Religion , the purity and superiority of the CHRISTIAN ...
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... believe , there needed no other prohibition of them to every Christian . " * In two former discourses , I have endea- voured to point out the proper line between the abuses and the uses of the Stage ; and pur- posed in the next place ...
... believe , there needed no other prohibition of them to every Christian . " * In two former discourses , I have endea- voured to point out the proper line between the abuses and the uses of the Stage ; and pur- posed in the next place ...
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... believe departed spirits do sometimes actually appear to persons in this world ; and there are some stories of them , on which a thinking and religious mind will not pronounce that they are false ; but , excepting those recorded in the ...
... believe departed spirits do sometimes actually appear to persons in this world ; and there are some stories of them , on which a thinking and religious mind will not pronounce that they are false ; but , excepting those recorded in the ...
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