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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... 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 Evidence , That a Revelation comes really from ...
... 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 Evidence , That a Revelation comes really from ...
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... truth ; and there we must leave it . Thus , in the appetites of hunger and thirst , they serve to awaken , to rouse us to exertion , and to bring us to our nourishment * Note A. 1 for the conservation of the body ; but when they 58 ...
... truth ; and there we must leave it . Thus , in the appetites of hunger and thirst , they serve to awaken , to rouse us to exertion , and to bring us to our nourishment * Note A. 1 for the conservation of the body ; but when they 58 ...
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... truth , by ex- citing attention , in a striking and lively manner , to the follies of mankind ; by preventing pedantry , and that affectation of mystery and pomp , which has so much impeded the pro- gress of useful science : it can make ...
... truth , by ex- citing attention , in a striking and lively manner , to the follies of mankind ; by preventing pedantry , and that affectation of mystery and pomp , which has so much impeded the pro- gress of useful science : it can make ...
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... truth , but as the incentive to bring us to the test of truth , is not only innocent but useful ; and , consequently , that the lighter species of Drama , denominated Comedy , is lawful , and may be employed , ( as was acknowledged by ...
... truth , but as the incentive to bring us to the test of truth , is not only innocent but useful ; and , consequently , that the lighter species of Drama , denominated Comedy , is lawful , and may be employed , ( as was acknowledged by ...
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... 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 persons concerned in its several depart- ments . These are the Conductors , or as they are ...
... 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 persons concerned in its several depart- ments . These are the Conductors , or as they are ...
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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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