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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... sense of the fear of God , inevitably lead to luxury and vice , the city of Corinth was in- famous to a proverb . About three years after St. Paul left Corinth , some important questions were proposed to him by his converts in that ...
... sense of the fear of God , inevitably lead to luxury and vice , the city of Corinth was in- famous to a proverb . About three years after St. Paul left Corinth , some important questions were proposed to him by his converts in that ...
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... sense of duty , and a regard to truth , must censure ; and which a sense of duty and of truth , we hope , will earnestly endeavour to re- form . The first step towards reformation is to be aware of the necessity of it , and the next is ...
... sense of duty , and a regard to truth , must censure ; and which a sense of duty and of truth , we hope , will earnestly endeavour to re- form . The first step towards reformation is to be aware of the necessity of it , and the next is ...
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... sense of Ridicule , or laughter , arises , ( he observes ) when two currents * of feelings meet suddenly in the mind , striking the moral sense , and by their concourse make an effect on the mind ( and so on the nerves ) resembling the ...
... sense of Ridicule , or laughter , arises , ( he observes ) when two currents * of feelings meet suddenly in the mind , striking the moral sense , and by their concourse make an effect on the mind ( and so on the nerves ) resembling the ...
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... sense of hearing , -since he hath given the sense of smelling , not only to distinguish in some measure between that which is good and that which is pernicious , but likewise to contribute to our delight , -and hath made the sense of ...
... sense of hearing , -since he hath given the sense of smelling , not only to distinguish in some measure between that which is good and that which is pernicious , but likewise to contribute to our delight , -and hath made the sense of ...
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... of exciting mirth or laughter , a wit ; but since such persons are very apt to abuse this faculty , and to deviate into buffoonery , scurrility , and indecency , it is sometimes used in a bad sense ; and from the 54 DISCOURSE III .
... of exciting mirth or laughter , a wit ; but since such persons are very apt to abuse this faculty , and to deviate into buffoonery , scurrility , and indecency , it is sometimes used in a bad sense ; and from the 54 DISCOURSE III .
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