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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So long ago as the -year 1794 , I conceived an idea of writing a work upon the
Drama , with a view to its improvement ; but more in a critical , than in a moral or
religious light , though not totally devoid of those considerations . My attention to
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So long ago as the -year 1794 , I conceived an idea of writing a work upon the
Drama , with a view to its improvement ; but more in a critical , than in a moral or
religious light , though not totally devoid of those considerations . My attention to
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I do not think that there ever was a time , in which I should not have acquiesced ,
had the Stage been represented to me in the light in which it is here set forth ;
and I could have given it up in its corrupted state , without reluctance : but , when I
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I do not think that there ever was a time , in which I should not have acquiesced ,
had the Stage been represented to me in the light in which it is here set forth ;
and I could have given it up in its corrupted state , without reluctance : but , when I
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the Stage , abstractedly considered , does not seem to bear a character so
decidedly different from preaching , from conversation , from reading pious and
moral books and instructive history , and of setting a good example , to “ let our
light ...
the Stage , abstractedly considered , does not seem to bear a character so
decidedly different from preaching , from conversation , from reading pious and
moral books and instructive history , and of setting a good example , to “ let our
light ...
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... to avoid the seeming impiety of addressing the Deity in that , which was but a
representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned
prayer to a feigned object , and thus making light of that awful and necessary duty
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... to avoid the seeming impiety of addressing the Deity in that , which was but a
representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned
prayer to a feigned object , and thus making light of that awful and necessary duty
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for the motive ought to be to please God ; but we are commanded to “ let our light
so shine before men , that they may see our good works , and GLORIFY OUR
FATHER WHO IS IN Heaven . " ( Matt . v . 16. ) Besides , can we not find similar ...
for the motive ought to be to please God ; but we are commanded to “ let our light
so shine before men , that they may see our good works , and GLORIFY OUR
FATHER WHO IS IN Heaven . " ( Matt . v . 16. ) Besides , can we not find similar ...
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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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