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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... reason to alter your good opinion upon my making these Discourses public , I am well aware , that I shall have to encounter the prejudices of two very different descriptions of persons , in this attempt at reforming the Stage ; those ...
... reason to alter your good opinion upon my making these Discourses public , I am well aware , that I shall have to encounter the prejudices of two very different descriptions of persons , in this attempt at reforming the Stage ; those ...
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... reasons for not my profession , are thinking the subject foreign to stated in more places than one in the Discourses themselves ; and I conceive myself ( and I hope I may be allowed to say so , without an imputation of vanity , as I ...
... reasons for not my profession , are thinking the subject foreign to stated in more places than one in the Discourses themselves ; and I conceive myself ( and I hope I may be allowed to say so , without an imputation of vanity , as I ...
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... , " on the most mature deliberation , that the reason why there never was a well - regulated stage , is because it cannot be , the nature of the thing not admitting it ; and that theatrical re- presentations 6 DISCOURSE I.
... , " on the most mature deliberation , that the reason why there never was a well - regulated stage , is because it cannot be , the nature of the thing not admitting it ; and that theatrical re- presentations 6 DISCOURSE I.
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... reason for calling this but Theory , I must own that I should not be so much disturbed by it as some might be . A Theory is often only a set of observations and conclusions , drawn from experiments , and reduced into some regular shape ...
... reason for calling this but Theory , I must own that I should not be so much disturbed by it as some might be . A Theory is often only a set of observations and conclusions , drawn from experiments , and reduced into some regular shape ...
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... reason ; but we have heard of persons , not very long ago , pretending to such fore - knowledge , and who found others weak and wicked enough to consult with them ; and we need not go very far from this place to find witchcraft believed ...
... reason ; but we have heard of persons , not very long ago , pretending to such fore - knowledge , and who found others weak and wicked enough to consult with them ; and we need not go very far from this place to find witchcraft believed ...
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