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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... person , upon whose judg- ment and piety I might depend , you most obligingly attended to my statement , and gave me ... persons , in this attempt at reforming the Stage ; those who think the Stage does not stand in need DEDICATION . ix.
... person , upon whose judg- ment and piety I might depend , you most obligingly attended to my statement , and gave me ... persons , in this attempt at reforming the Stage ; those who think the Stage does not stand in need DEDICATION . ix.
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... person in quest of medical know- ledge , for the benefit of mankind , thinks it no privilege to attend in the surgery and the dissect- ing room ; but if , by his own personal inconve- nience , he can benefit others , he is in the way of ...
... person in quest of medical know- ledge , for the benefit of mankind , thinks it no privilege to attend in the surgery and the dissect- ing room ; but if , by his own personal inconve- nience , he can benefit others , he is in the way of ...
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... persons condemning plays , and yet going to them , when I heard the profession censured , and yet encouraged , by attending the representations of its professors , I confess there was a contradiction , in which I could not acquiesce ...
... persons condemning plays , and yet going to them , when I heard the profession censured , and yet encouraged , by attending the representations of its professors , I confess there was a contradiction , in which I could not acquiesce ...
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... persons , one an emi- nently pious minister of the Gospel , and the other an accomplished and excellent female , assured me , when conversing with them on this subject , that , previous to their becoming serious , the Stage op- posed to ...
... persons , one an emi- nently pious minister of the Gospel , and the other an accomplished and excellent female , assured me , when conversing with them on this subject , that , previous to their becoming serious , the Stage op- posed to ...
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... person's sentiments , and putting them into other , and perhaps inferior language , for the purpose of passing them off for an author's own , to be not only unnecessary , but disingenuous . By adopting the sentiments of another , the person ...
... person's sentiments , and putting them into other , and perhaps inferior language , for the purpose of passing them off for an author's own , to be not only unnecessary , but disingenuous . By adopting the sentiments of another , the person ...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
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