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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... human nature and the Christian Religion ; but , though they are such as I would not now send abroad into the world , I do not wonder that they are not better ; they contain some heathenism , and some false sentiment ; but , at the same ...
... human nature and the Christian Religion ; but , though they are such as I would not now send abroad into the world , I do not wonder that they are not better ; they contain some heathenism , and some false sentiment ; but , at the same ...
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... human imperfection would allow , ) are for giving it up , as the safer part . One writer against the stage goes so far as to affirm , " on the most mature deliberation , that the reason why there never was a well - regulated stage , is ...
... human imperfection would allow , ) are for giving it up , as the safer part . One writer against the stage goes so far as to affirm , " on the most mature deliberation , that the reason why there never was a well - regulated stage , is ...
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... and commendable . The only case for doubt appears to be , where the Stage is con- sidered merely as an amusement ; and , then , how C ---- far it may be lawful for any human being THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 17.
... and commendable . The only case for doubt appears to be , where the Stage is con- sidered merely as an amusement ; and , then , how C ---- far it may be lawful for any human being THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 17.
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... human being to employ his whole time in subserviency merely to the amusement of mankind , is the question to be determined . Together with the divine , who watches for the souls of mankind , the physician , who administers to the ...
... human being to employ his whole time in subserviency merely to the amusement of mankind , is the question to be determined . Together with the divine , who watches for the souls of mankind , the physician , who administers to the ...
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... human authority against another , I shall quote the sentiments of Arch- bishop Tillotson , an author praised by some of the greatest adversaries of the Stage , for his * See a Paper on PATRONAGE , in the Orthodox Church- man's Magazine ...
... human authority against another , I shall quote the sentiments of Arch- bishop Tillotson , an author praised by some of the greatest adversaries of the Stage , for his * See a Paper on PATRONAGE , in the Orthodox Church- man's Magazine ...
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