The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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Page 5
... corrupt image to the mind , nor any impure description to the fancy . As the following pieces were written and performed at an early period of my life , under the above impressions , I feel it a kind of duty ( imploring pardon for the ...
... corrupt image to the mind , nor any impure description to the fancy . As the following pieces were written and performed at an early period of my life , under the above impressions , I feel it a kind of duty ( imploring pardon for the ...
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... . For we must first suppose a state of society in which the spectators will be disposed to relish all that is pure , and to reprobate all that is corrupt , before the system of a pure and uncorrupt theatre can be 6 PREFACE .
... . For we must first suppose a state of society in which the spectators will be disposed to relish all that is pure , and to reprobate all that is corrupt , before the system of a pure and uncorrupt theatre can be 6 PREFACE .
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... corruption of human nature itself were so reformed as to render the amusements of a perfectly purified stage palatable ... corrupt nature would soon with- draw itself from the vapid and inappropriate amusement ; and thin , I will not say ...
... corruption of human nature itself were so reformed as to render the amusements of a perfectly purified stage palatable ... corrupt nature would soon with- draw itself from the vapid and inappropriate amusement ; and thin , I will not say ...
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... corruption the body of a work , the general spirit and leading tem- pers of which , as was said above , are evidently not drawn from that meek religion , the very essence of which consists in " casting down high imaginations ; " while ...
... corruption the body of a work , the general spirit and leading tem- pers of which , as was said above , are evidently not drawn from that meek religion , the very essence of which consists in " casting down high imaginations ; " while ...
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... corrupt nature , in opposition to those precepts which , in the other case , were directed to subdue it . And this one grand and impor- tant difference between the two cases should never be overlooked , that religious instruction ...
... corrupt nature , in opposition to those precepts which , in the other case , were directed to subdue it . And this one grand and impor- tant difference between the two cases should never be overlooked , that religious instruction ...
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