A Defence of the Stage: Or An Enquiry Into the Real Qualities of Theatrical Entertainments, Their Scope and Tendency. Being a Reply to a Sermon Entitled "The Evil of Theatrical Amusements Stated and Illustrated" ... by the Rev. Dr. John B. Bennett. Including an Examination of the Authorities on which that Sermon is FoundedMilliken and son, 1839 - 175 страници |
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... of a Christian , seeking in the regula- tion of his life not to offend the sacred tenets of the creed in which he has been instructed . An examination of all the various publications which are before the world , on the moral and 2.
... of a Christian , seeking in the regula- tion of his life not to offend the sacred tenets of the creed in which he has been instructed . An examination of all the various publications which are before the world , on the moral and 2.
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... moral and immoral tendency of the Stage , ( from the days of William Prynne and Jeremy Collier down to our own times , ) will lead the reasonable inquirer to determine , that the question has not yet been considered in the dispassionate ...
... moral and immoral tendency of the Stage , ( from the days of William Prynne and Jeremy Collier down to our own times , ) will lead the reasonable inquirer to determine , that the question has not yet been considered in the dispassionate ...
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... moral instruction . When we are told that the Stage is " irrecon- cileably hostile to the whole tenor and spirit of the Word of God ; " that it is " an exclusively vicious and criminal indulgence , directly opposed to the Christian ...
... moral instruction . When we are told that the Stage is " irrecon- cileably hostile to the whole tenor and spirit of the Word of God ; " that it is " an exclusively vicious and criminal indulgence , directly opposed to the Christian ...
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... morals , it might be passed over altogether , or in- cluded in a general allusion . But it appears to its opponents such an unmixed mass of evil , that lan- guage can scarcely supply them with adequate terms in which to express their ...
... morals , it might be passed over altogether , or in- cluded in a general allusion . But it appears to its opponents such an unmixed mass of evil , that lan- guage can scarcely supply them with adequate terms in which to express their ...
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... morality of the stage is mere worldly sophistry ; " " its pretended religion abominable blasphemy ; " and finally , ac- cording to the pious Mr. Law , " there is as much justice and tenderness in telling every player his employment is ...
... morality of the stage is mere worldly sophistry ; " " its pretended religion abominable blasphemy ; " and finally , ac- cording to the pious Mr. Law , " there is as much justice and tenderness in telling every player his employment is ...
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Страница 154 - 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.
Страница 8 - 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.
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Страница 153 - 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.
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Страница 84 - 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?