A defence of the stage, or An inquiry into the real qualities of theatrical entertainments, their scope and tendency. Being a reply to a sermon ... by the rev. dr. John B. Bennett |
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... a sincere conviction of the truth of the doctrines it inculcates , and an earnest desire to promote the great ends of Chris- tion instruction . The conclusions arrived at are B startling . It is maintained , that to go to A ...
... a sincere conviction of the truth of the doctrines it inculcates , and an earnest desire to promote the great ends of Chris- tion instruction . The conclusions arrived at are B startling . It is maintained , that to go to A ...
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... truth , whether or not he is in the predicament ascribed to him . I approach this investigation with feel- ings suited to the importance of the subject ; with an unaffected diffidence of my own power to grap- ple with it ; less imbued ...
... truth , whether or not he is in the predicament ascribed to him . I approach this investigation with feel- ings suited to the importance of the subject ; with an unaffected diffidence of my own power to grap- ple with it ; less imbued ...
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... truth forgotten in the tumult of conflicting assertions . Violence provokes , but does not convince . If an opponent commences his attack , by telling you , you are a sinner , and you retort by calling him a hy- pocrite , both positions ...
... truth forgotten in the tumult of conflicting assertions . Violence provokes , but does not convince . If an opponent commences his attack , by telling you , you are a sinner , and you retort by calling him a hy- pocrite , both positions ...
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... truth in his heart , and his reasoning faculties unclouded by prejudice , pronounce that any thing is all evil in itself , be- cause instances of its evil application are recorded ; passing by , at the same time , the many authorities ...
... truth in his heart , and his reasoning faculties unclouded by prejudice , pronounce that any thing is all evil in itself , be- cause instances of its evil application are recorded ; passing by , at the same time , the many authorities ...
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... truths of the Gospel , by quotations from the poet Aratus of Cilicia , t the * Moral and Political Philosophy , Book II . c . ix . " For in him we live , and move , and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said , For ...
... truths of the Gospel , by quotations from the poet Aratus of Cilicia , t the * Moral and Political Philosophy , Book II . c . ix . " For in him we live , and move , and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said , For ...
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156 페이지 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
156 페이지 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
85 페이지 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
8 페이지 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth ; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
155 페이지 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be. Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign.
85 페이지 - Comedy will (I think) by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...
153 페이지 - Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown ! I Richard's body have interred new ; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears, Than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, Who twice...
18 페이지 - And they prayed, and said. Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
93 페이지 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to he productive of much evil.
86 페이지 - Physic (the best rampire to our often-assaulted bodies), being abused, teach poison, the most violent destroyer? Doth not knowledge of Law, whose end is to even and right all things, being abused, grow the crooked fosterer of horrible injuries?