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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... perhaps concur in thinking it a matter foreign , if not derogatory , to the character of a Clergyman . Bishop Horne , however , whose opinion I am ever happy to cite , furnishes me with two authorities for my endeavours : Every man ...
... perhaps concur in thinking it a matter foreign , if not derogatory , to the character of a Clergyman . Bishop Horne , however , whose opinion I am ever happy to cite , furnishes me with two authorities for my endeavours : Every man ...
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... perhaps inferior language , for the purpose of passing them off for an author's own , to be not only unnecessary , but disingenuous . By adopting the sentiments of another , the person becomes re- sponsible for them ; and , on subjects ...
... perhaps inferior language , for the purpose of passing them off for an author's own , to be not only unnecessary , but disingenuous . By adopting the sentiments of another , the person becomes re- sponsible for them ; and , on subjects ...
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... perhaps , it may justly be traced to heathenism and to the author of it ; but it then becomes an inquiry , Whence the heathens acquired this Ode and Chorus in honour of their Gods ? The pro- bability is , that it was borrowed , or ...
... perhaps , it may justly be traced to heathenism and to the author of it ; but it then becomes an inquiry , Whence the heathens acquired this Ode and Chorus in honour of their Gods ? The pro- bability is , that it was borrowed , or ...
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... perhaps be so just and reasonable ; because it is very possible , they might be so framed , and governed by such rules , as not only to be in- nocently diverting , but instructing and useful , to put some vices and follies out of ...
... perhaps be so just and reasonable ; because it is very possible , they might be so framed , and governed by such rules , as not only to be in- nocently diverting , but instructing and useful , to put some vices and follies out of ...
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... perhaps , to avoid the seeming impiety of addressing the Deity in that , which was but a representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned prayer to a feigned object , and thus making light of that awful ...
... perhaps , to avoid the seeming impiety of addressing the Deity in that , which was but a representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned prayer to a feigned object , and thus making light of that awful ...
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