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 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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... excellent ends ; but , that , it is like all other good things , capable of being abused , so as to do infinite harm . In the hands of the wicked , it is neither the sword of truth , nor the probe of the skilful and humane practitioner ...
... excellent ends ; but , that , it is like all other good things , capable of being abused , so as to do infinite harm . In the hands of the wicked , it is neither the sword of truth , nor the probe of the skilful and humane practitioner ...
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... excellent writer ) we see offences against man punished with severity , and offences against God passed over in silence , depend upon it that nation is hastening to de- struction . " 1 The Author of the valuable Works on the Duties of ...
... excellent writer ) we see offences against man punished with severity , and offences against God passed over in silence , depend upon it that nation is hastening to de- struction . " 1 The Author of the valuable Works on the Duties of ...
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... excellent Poet as well as Orator , thought the former title an addition to his honour ; and ever mentioned Terence and Menander with great respect . AUGUSTUS found it easier to make himself sovereign of the world , than to write a good ...
... excellent Poet as well as Orator , thought the former title an addition to his honour ; and ever mentioned Terence and Menander with great respect . AUGUSTUS found it easier to make himself sovereign of the world , than to write a good ...
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... excellent work entitled , Virtue in Humble Life , in one of the conversations between the Father and his Daughter , thus expresses his sentiments on the subject of the Stage : D. Those who mis - spend their time in great cities , I ...
... excellent work entitled , Virtue in Humble Life , in one of the conversations between the Father and his Daughter , thus expresses his sentiments on the subject of the Stage : D. Those who mis - spend their time in great cities , I ...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
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