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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... feel in resigning to its influence their last favourite -the Stage - is a proof , that it has lodged in the hearts of many the strongest prejudices against the practical influence of Christianity . " ( p . 81. ) And he says , farther ...
... feel in resigning to its influence their last favourite -the Stage - is a proof , that it has lodged in the hearts of many the strongest prejudices against the practical influence of Christianity . " ( p . 81. ) And he says , farther ...
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... feel something answering to such an expression as this : " my sentiments of respect flow on account of such a man : " on the sight or mention of this man my sentiments are put in motion : and the same is true of contempt . Now , it ...
... feel something answering to such an expression as this : " my sentiments of respect flow on account of such a man : " on the sight or mention of this man my sentiments are put in motion : and the same is true of contempt . Now , it ...
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... feeling , likewise , to administer to our pleasure , as well as for use , -there seems to be no reason why wit in itself , as improving the delight of conversation , should be considered as unlawful . The faculty of wit , as well as ...
... feeling , likewise , to administer to our pleasure , as well as for use , -there seems to be no reason why wit in itself , as improving the delight of conversation , should be considered as unlawful . The faculty of wit , as well as ...
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... things , and great want of nicety in others , makes a contrast of itself , which might excite some feeling of ridicule . " Ditto . At and where he compares them to " whited sepul- E 3 ON WIT AND RIDICULE . 53 -are ...
... things , and great want of nicety in others , makes a contrast of itself , which might excite some feeling of ridicule . " Ditto . At and where he compares them to " whited sepul- E 3 ON WIT AND RIDICULE . 53 -are ...
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... feel that every thing unconsonant with it , ought instantly to vanish from the whole school of literature , and to keep as absolutely aloof , as the Israelites from the boundary that guarded mount Sinai It might have been presumed ...
... feel that every thing unconsonant with it , ought instantly to vanish from the whole school of literature , and to keep as absolutely aloof , as the Israelites from the boundary that guarded mount Sinai It might have been presumed ...
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