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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... hands of the diligent and skilful , will not turn to account . Honey exudes from all flowers , the bitter not excepted ; and the Bee knows how to extract it . " My reasons for not my profession , are thinking the subject foreign to ...
... hands of the diligent and skilful , will not turn to account . Honey exudes from all flowers , the bitter not excepted ; and the Bee knows how to extract it . " My reasons for not my profession , are thinking the subject foreign to ...
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... hand , and the people were to attend the reading of it in the place of public worship . The Apostles continued this mode , and wrote Epistles for the instruction of their converts . But , has this prevented pious Christians , when the ...
... hand , and the people were to attend the reading of it in the place of public worship . The Apostles continued this mode , and wrote Epistles for the instruction of their converts . But , has this prevented pious Christians , when the ...
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... hands of the great Adversary of mankind , and made a most powerful mean of corruption ; a fact allowed by all reasonable advocates for the Stage . It becomes , therefore , not only adviseable , but is likewise our bounden . duty , to ...
... hands of the great Adversary of mankind , and made a most powerful mean of corruption ; a fact allowed by all reasonable advocates for the Stage . It becomes , therefore , not only adviseable , but is likewise our bounden . duty , to ...
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... hands of 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 ...
... hands of 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 ...
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... hand , hears the ridicule , considers the matter , gives way and corrects it , if the ridicule be just ; but , if it be wrong , he rejects and despises it . One of the greatest benefits which could be rendered to a young man on his ...
... hand , hears the ridicule , considers the matter , gives way and corrects it , if the ridicule be just ; but , if it be wrong , he rejects and despises it . One of the greatest benefits which could be rendered to a young man on his ...
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