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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... moral and religious truths . And though , in this particular instance , it would have been presumption in any one to ... morals had been taught , or if the persons assembling to hear this lesson had been guilty of immoralities , then had ...
... moral and religious truths . And though , in this particular instance , it would have been presumption in any one to ... morals had been taught , or if the persons assembling to hear this lesson had been guilty of immoralities , then had ...
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... moral books and instructive history , and of setting a good example , to " let our light shine before men , " ( Matt . v . 16. ) as to make us doubt its propriety . The Drama is , in fact , embodied history , brought visibly before our ...
... moral books and instructive history , and of setting a good example , to " let our light shine before men , " ( Matt . v . 16. ) as to make us doubt its propriety . The Drama is , in fact , embodied history , brought visibly before our ...
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... moral instruction , as well as of amusement , then the profession is not only innocent , but highly useful and commendable . The only case for doubt appears to be , where the Stage is con- sidered merely as an amusement ; and , then ...
... moral instruction , as well as of amusement , then the profession is not only innocent , but highly useful and commendable . The only case for doubt appears to be , where the Stage is con- sidered merely as an amusement ; and , then ...
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... moral , it is only a set of rules , very useful , found out by degrees , after several corrections , each correction occasioned by some actual incon- venience , and each rule adopted as utility appeared , and as men could be prevailed ...
... moral , it is only a set of rules , very useful , found out by degrees , after several corrections , each correction occasioned by some actual incon- venience , and each rule adopted as utility appeared , and as men could be prevailed ...
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... moral instruction . To contribute , as far as is in my power , to this desirable end , I shall en- deavour , in the present discourse , to point out what are the particular corruptions of the Stage , that we may know what to reject ...
... moral instruction . To contribute , as far as is in my power , to this desirable end , I shall en- deavour , in the present discourse , to point out what are the particular corruptions of the Stage , that we may know what to reject ...
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