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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... called ridicule , we certainly have some instances in Scripture . Elijah in his controversy with the priests of Baal , mocked them with the most pointed irony , or ridicule , and said of their god , " Cry aloud , for he is a god ...
... called ridicule , we certainly have some instances in Scripture . Elijah in his controversy with the priests of Baal , mocked them with the most pointed irony , or ridicule , and said of their god , " Cry aloud , for he is a god ...
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... called ridicule , that it is a test of truth , a position which requires some investigation . The means by which we come to the know- ledge of truth , are Divine Revelation , Reason , the testimony of our Senses , and Historical ...
... called ridicule , that it is a test of truth , a position which requires some investigation . The means by which we come to the know- ledge of truth , are Divine Revelation , Reason , the testimony of our Senses , and Historical ...
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... called ridicule , is merely an ornament , or pleasant mode of speech , a sort of seasoning , * to quicken or awaken the appetite ; and , when we are thus excited , reason , as in every thing else , is to determine for us how far , we ...
... called ridicule , is merely an ornament , or pleasant mode of speech , a sort of seasoning , * to quicken or awaken the appetite ; and , when we are thus excited , reason , as in every thing else , is to determine for us how far , we ...
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... called Comedy ) is lawful , and how far that species of wit , called ridicule , is a test of truth . The subject shall be closed in this Discourse , by pointing out , as the most probable means of improving the Stage , the duties of the ...
... called Comedy ) is lawful , and how far that species of wit , called ridicule , is a test of truth . The subject shall be closed in this Discourse , by pointing out , as the most probable means of improving the Stage , the duties of the ...
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... called them ? What would Elijah have said to such an em- ployment of talents in his time ? It would have availed little to have told him that these divinities were only personifications ( with their appropriate representative idols ) of ...
... called them ? What would Elijah have said to such an em- ployment of talents in his time ? It would have availed little to have told him that these divinities were only personifications ( with their appropriate representative idols ) of ...
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