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 Notes |
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As to its giving the boys a turn for becoming public actors , justice likewise
requires it to be said , that as far as my own knowledge extends , I believe there
never was an instance of any one of the actors performing afterwards upon a
public ...
As to its giving the boys a turn for becoming public actors , justice likewise
requires it to be said , that as far as my own knowledge extends , I believe there
never was an instance of any one of the actors performing afterwards upon a
public ...
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To believe , that beings , possessing such power , ever existed , is contrary to
what is taught us in the Sacred Writings , and to the ideas which we are there
taught to entertain of the perfections of God : and although wicked persons have
...
To believe , that beings , possessing such power , ever existed , is contrary to
what is taught us in the Sacred Writings , and to the ideas which we are there
taught to entertain of the perfections of God : and although wicked persons have
...
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... believe , hath bad a very considerable part in influencing the public mind with
respect to the state of the Negroes , and the infamous traffic of the Slave - trade :
Nor hath Religion , the purity and superiority of the CHRISTIAN Religion , been ...
... believe , hath bad a very considerable part in influencing the public mind with
respect to the state of the Negroes , and the infamous traffic of the Slave - trade :
Nor hath Religion , the purity and superiority of the CHRISTIAN Religion , been ...
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He adds , " Whether these conjectures are just or not , it is very certain that these
and many other passages , forbid the abuses of the Stage ; and if these abuses
be inseparable from it , as there is reason to believe , there needed no other ...
He adds , " Whether these conjectures are just or not , it is very certain that these
and many other passages , forbid the abuses of the Stage ; and if these abuses
be inseparable from it , as there is reason to believe , there needed no other ...
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It is true , that many believe departed spirits do sometimes actually appear to
persons in this world ; and there are some stories of them , on which a thinking
and religious mind will not pronounce that they are false ; but , excepting those ...
It is true , that many believe departed spirits do sometimes actually appear to
persons in this world ; and there are some stories of them , on which a thinking
and religious mind will not pronounce that they are false ; but , excepting those ...
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| Título | 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 Notes |
| Autor | James Plumptre |
| Editora | F. Hodson, 1809 |
| Original de | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitalizado | 28 Ago 2012 |
| Número de páginas | 284 páginas |
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