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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... , was the care which * DR . WILLIAM BARROW . + The year 1802 , after which MR . NEWCOME * retired from public life . * Richard , Esq . Son of the former . was taken to expunge every exceptionable passage from the pieces DEDICATION .
... , was the care which * DR . WILLIAM BARROW . + The year 1802 , after which MR . NEWCOME * retired from public life . * Richard , Esq . Son of the former . was taken to expunge every exceptionable passage from the pieces DEDICATION .
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... former attachment to the Stage , and my subsequent attention to sacred sub- jects . The time which I formerly gave up to this subject , I acknowledge to have been misapplied ; but , if it shall please Providence to prosper this ...
... former attachment to the Stage , and my subsequent attention to sacred sub- jects . The time which I formerly gave up to this subject , I acknowledge to have been misapplied ; but , if it shall please Providence to prosper this ...
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... former attachment to the Stage , I may not be accused of partiality , and therefore , as being an incompetent judge in the business . I have repeatedly asked myself this question , and I think I can decide upon it with confidence . As ...
... former attachment to the Stage , I may not be accused of partiality , and therefore , as being an incompetent judge in the business . I have repeatedly asked myself this question , and I think I can decide upon it with confidence . As ...
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... former discourse , the much controverted question of the lawfulness of the Stage was taken into consideration , and it was shewn , I think , upon sufficient evidence , that the Stage is an amusement by no means unlawful in itself ; but ...
... former discourse , the much controverted question of the lawfulness of the Stage was taken into consideration , and it was shewn , I think , upon sufficient evidence , that the Stage is an amusement by no means unlawful in itself ; but ...
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... Stage , whose work I have had occasion to mention in my former Discourses , says , that St. Paul , by these words , " intended to prohibit the plays , that were then 66 in use ; " and that the word Koos 44 DISCOURSE III .
... Stage , whose work I have had occasion to mention in my former Discourses , says , that St. Paul , by these words , " intended to prohibit the plays , that were then 66 in use ; " and that the word Koos 44 DISCOURSE III .
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