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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... rendered to a young man on his setting out in life , would be to teach him duly to estimate the force and the effects of ridicule ; whereby perhaps he may be preserved from being laughed out of many virtues , which are ON WIT AND ...
... rendered to a young man on his setting out in life , would be to teach him duly to estimate the force and the effects of ridicule ; whereby perhaps he may be preserved from being laughed out of many virtues , which are ON WIT AND ...
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... render the word , or the works , or the Providence of God ridiculous , and to lower them in the esteem of mankind . It is a practice by no means uncommon with many , to make a jest of the Scriptures , by giving Scripture words , phrases ...
... render the word , or the works , or the Providence of God ridiculous , and to lower them in the esteem of mankind . It is a practice by no means uncommon with many , to make a jest of the Scriptures , by giving Scripture words , phrases ...
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... rendering contemptible the characters of those , whom we are bound to respect , as our rulers , magistrates , parents , and relations of various descriptions .. And wit is then at its worst ( as far as regards human beings ) when it is ...
... rendering contemptible the characters of those , whom we are bound to respect , as our rulers , magistrates , parents , and relations of various descriptions .. And wit is then at its worst ( as far as regards human beings ) when it is ...
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... rendered unacceptable to persons of cultivated taste , " has treated this subject in so admirable a style , that a few extracts from it cannot but prove acceptable . " To a man ( says he ) who had long observed the influences which ...
... rendered unacceptable to persons of cultivated taste , " has treated this subject in so admirable a style , that a few extracts from it cannot but prove acceptable . " To a man ( says he ) who had long observed the influences which ...
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... rendered obsolete , or declared or implied to be wrong , should no more be regarded as belonging to the system of principles to be henceforth received and taught , than dead bodies in their graves belong to the race of living men . To ...
... rendered obsolete , or declared or implied to be wrong , should no more be regarded as belonging to the system of principles to be henceforth received and taught , than dead bodies in their graves belong to the race of living men . To ...
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