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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... profession of a Stage - player . If the Stage be in itself unlawful , then , not only those who carry it on , but those likewise who attend it , and those who sanction it , become partakers in the sin . But , if the Stage be a source of ...
... profession of a Stage - player . If the Stage be in itself unlawful , then , not only those who carry it on , but those likewise who attend it , and those who sanction it , become partakers in the sin . But , if the Stage be a source of ...
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... profession of the Stage , that persons enter into it , not with a view of seeking some station in life , in which they may discharge the duties incumbent upon every member of Society , of working out his own salvation , and profiting ...
... profession of the Stage , that persons enter into it , not with a view of seeking some station in life , in which they may discharge the duties incumbent upon every member of Society , of working out his own salvation , and profiting ...
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... profession consider , that although every man may look to acquire a competent maintenance by his profession , yet he hath a much more important object to attain . He is to weigh well the duty which he owes to God and to man ; and , if ...
... profession consider , that although every man may look to acquire a competent maintenance by his profession , yet he hath a much more important object to attain . He is to weigh well the duty which he owes to God and to man ; and , if ...
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... profession , and of the paramount object with them of making money , will equally apply to Writers . Emolument and fame are , too com- monly , their only , or their chief pursuits , instruction being but a very subordinate , and , in ...
... profession , and of the paramount object with them of making money , will equally apply to Writers . Emolument and fame are , too com- monly , their only , or their chief pursuits , instruction being but a very subordinate , and , in ...
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... profession of a Player hath been considered before . * If the Stage be an innocent amuse- ment , the profession must be as innocent as any other , which contributes merely to the amusements of mankind ; more so than those , which ...
... profession of a Player hath been considered before . * If the Stage be an innocent amuse- ment , the profession must be as innocent as any other , which contributes merely to the amusements of mankind ; more so than those , which ...
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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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