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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... my Dear Sir , which have led to your return to the University , in a station of high
importance , have unexpectedly , but most happily for me , been the cause of my
acquiring a new and a very valuable Friend ; and , when I mentioned my idea ...
... my Dear Sir , which have led to your return to the University , in a station of high
importance , have unexpectedly , but most happily for me , been the cause of my
acquiring a new and a very valuable Friend ; and , when I mentioned my idea ...
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There is one amusement , which hath been very prevalent in the world ,
particularly in civilized countries , for many hundred years , and which hath been
the cause of much difference of opinion as to its uses and lawfulness , While that ,
and ...
There is one amusement , which hath been very prevalent in the world ,
particularly in civilized countries , for many hundred years , and which hath been
the cause of much difference of opinion as to its uses and lawfulness , While that ,
and ...
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Indiscriminate praise or indiscriminate censure are alike injurious to any cause ,
and equally indispose the friends or the enemies of it to an inquiry into its true
merits ; and , when we find such very opposite opinions prevail upon any subject
...
Indiscriminate praise or indiscriminate censure are alike injurious to any cause ,
and equally indispose the friends or the enemies of it to an inquiry into its true
merits ; and , when we find such very opposite opinions prevail upon any subject
...
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... but arising merely from the abuse of it , and which it is in the power of its
frequenters , and properly constituted authorities , to correct ; and , if this powerful
engine can be farther made to promote the cause of virtue , and , with that ,
indirectly ...
... but arising merely from the abuse of it , and which it is in the power of its
frequenters , and properly constituted authorities , to correct ; and , if this powerful
engine can be farther made to promote the cause of virtue , and , with that ,
indirectly ...
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the subject beneath the sacred dignity of this place ; that which is of such
extensive , important , and often pernicious consequences , but which , I think , '
might be rendered subservient to the cause of goodness alone , is not an object
to be ...
the subject beneath the sacred dignity of this place ; that which is of such
extensive , important , and often pernicious consequences , but which , I think , '
might be rendered subservient to the cause of goodness alone , is not an object
to be ...
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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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