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 Notes |
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... Deity concluding in the fifth , the historical parts at the beginning and the end are a kind of prologue and epilogue , which , like those of the ancients , are plain narrations , illustrating the poetical parts . " The opinion most ...
... Deity concluding in the fifth , the historical parts at the beginning and the end are a kind of prologue and epilogue , which , like those of the ancients , are plain narrations , illustrating the poetical parts . " The opinion most ...
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... and the myriad * Note E. + See Doddridge upon the passage . Note F. of heathen Deities ? Hath not the abomination of Desolation THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 13 been no part of the original design, and might ...
... and the myriad * Note E. + See Doddridge upon the passage . Note F. of heathen Deities ? Hath not the abomination of Desolation THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 13 been no part of the original design, and might ...
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... Deities ? Hath not the abomination of Desolation been set up in the Holy Place ? And here it may be remarked , that the exhortation of St. Paul to the Corinthians to separate from the corruptions of the world , " Come out of her my ...
... Deities ? Hath not the abomination of Desolation been set up in the Holy Place ? And here it may be remarked , that the exhortation of St. Paul to the Corinthians to separate from the corruptions of the world , " Come out of her my ...
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... deities of Virtues ; or , after the corruptions of popery , making their prayers to and putting their trust in Saints and Angels . † It is not improbable , but that an Act of Parliament , passed in the reign of King James the First ...
... deities of Virtues ; or , after the corruptions of popery , making their prayers to and putting their trust in Saints and Angels . † It is not improbable , but that an Act of Parliament , passed in the reign of King James the First ...
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... Deity in that , which was but a representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned prayer to a feigned object , and thus making light of that awful and necessary duty . Many , indeed , have doubted and ...
... Deity in that , which was but a representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned prayer to a feigned object , and thus making light of that awful and necessary duty . Many , indeed , have doubted and ...
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