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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... excellent female , assured me , when conversing with them on this subject , that , previous to their becoming serious , the Stage op- posed to their hearts the most powerful barrier to their receiving genuine religion ; they thought ...
... excellent female , assured me , when conversing with them on this subject , that , previous to their becoming serious , the Stage op- posed to their hearts the most powerful barrier to their receiving genuine religion ; they thought ...
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... excellent writer upon another subject , " supposing there were good reason for calling this but Theory , I must own that I should not be so much disturbed by it as some might be . A Theory is often only a set of observations and ...
... excellent writer upon another subject , " supposing there were good reason for calling this but Theory , I must own that I should not be so much disturbed by it as some might be . A Theory is often only a set of observations and ...
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... excellent work , " A short view of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " published about the end of the seventeenth century , and in another work , published in the beginning of the following century , entitled , " A ...
... excellent work , " A short view of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " published about the end of the seventeenth century , and in another work , published in the beginning of the following century , entitled , " A ...
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... excellent and judicious BARROW did not disdain to make WIT the subject of a whole discourse , which was delivered , probably , in this very place . " It may be demanded , " says this Preacher , " what the thing we mean is . To which ...
... excellent and judicious BARROW did not disdain to make WIT the subject of a whole discourse , which was delivered , probably , in this very place . " It may be demanded , " says this Preacher , " what the thing we mean is . To which ...
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... excellent writer on ridicule , before quoted , offers these considerations to account for it : " extensive views , business , suf- ferings , compassion , might easily prevent it . " + But it is very certain , that Christ has mentioned ...
... excellent writer on ridicule , before quoted , offers these considerations to account for it : " extensive views , business , suf- ferings , compassion , might easily prevent it . " + But it is very certain , that Christ has mentioned ...
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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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