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 עמודים |
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עמוד 36
... ( says the Author of one of the works before mentioned ) is to recommend virtue and to dis- countenance vice ; to shew the uncertainty of human greatness , the sudden turns of fate , ” . or , as , perhaps , it is better expressed ...
... ( says the Author of one of the works before mentioned ) is to recommend virtue and to dis- countenance vice ; to shew the uncertainty of human greatness , the sudden turns of fate , ” . or , as , perhaps , it is better expressed ...
עמוד 37
... ( says a later writer ) is an exact picture of human life . There we see our fellow - creatures placed in a variety of interest- ing situations , and speaking and acting as those situations would naturally lead them to do . In a well ...
... ( says a later writer ) is an exact picture of human life . There we see our fellow - creatures placed in a variety of interest- ing situations , and speaking and acting as those situations would naturally lead them to do . In a well ...
עמוד 46
... says this Preacher , " what the thing we mean is . - To which question I might reply , as Democritus did to him . that asked the definition of a man , ' Tis that which we all see and know : any one better apprehends what it is by ...
... says this Preacher , " what the thing we mean is . - To which question I might reply , as Democritus did to him . that asked the definition of a man , ' Tis that which we all see and know : any one better apprehends what it is by ...
עמוד 47
... ( says he ) lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully one from another , ideas , wherein can be found the least difference , thereby to avoid being misled by similitude , and by affinity to take one thing for another . This ...
... ( says he ) lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully one from another , ideas , wherein can be found the least difference , thereby to avoid being misled by similitude , and by affinity to take one thing for another . This ...
עמוד 52
... says , " In reply to Bildad , Job ( ch . xxvi . 1-4 . ) demonstrates himself no less expert at wielding the weapons of satire and ridicule , than those of reason and argument . " * But it is objected , that our blessed Saviour never was ...
... says , " In reply to Bildad , Job ( ch . xxvi . 1-4 . ) demonstrates himself no less expert at wielding the weapons of satire and ridicule , than those of reason and argument . " * But it is objected , that our blessed Saviour never was ...
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