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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At a time when the world was convulsed with new speculations in politics and
divinity , likely to warp a young and uninformed mind , I conceive it to have been
in a great measure owing to the sound doctrines I imbibed at these Lectures vi ...
At a time when the world was convulsed with new speculations in politics and
divinity , likely to warp a young and uninformed mind , I conceive it to have been
in a great measure owing to the sound doctrines I imbibed at these Lectures vi ...
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6 When it is considered how many young men pick up their habits of thinking and
their notions of morality from the play - house , it is not perhaps going too far to
suspect , that the principles and examples exhibited on the stage , may contribute
...
6 When it is considered how many young men pick up their habits of thinking and
their notions of morality from the play - house , it is not perhaps going too far to
suspect , that the principles and examples exhibited on the stage , may contribute
...
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Thus the young man becomes acquainted with the world in which he is to live ;
he sees the effect of those passions which are his most dangerous enemies ; and
he learns to shun the errors and vices which are there held up to just detestation .
Thus the young man becomes acquainted with the world in which he is to live ;
he sees the effect of those passions which are his most dangerous enemies ; and
he learns to shun the errors and vices which are there held up to just detestation .
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One of the greatest benefits which could be 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 ...
One of the greatest benefits which could be 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 ...
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That he ( a good poet ) is said to be able to inform young men to all good
discipline , and enflame grown men to all great virtues , & c . - That the general
complaint was that the writers of those days had nothing remaining in them of the
dignity ...
That he ( a good poet ) is said to be able to inform young men to all good
discipline , and enflame grown men to all great virtues , & c . - That the general
complaint was that the writers of those days had nothing remaining in them of the
dignity ...
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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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