The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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Page 7
... lives of too many stage professors , allowing always for some very honorable exceptions . I shall not remark on the gross and palpable corruptions of those plays which are obviously written with an open disregard to all purity and ...
... lives of too many stage professors , allowing always for some very honorable exceptions . I shall not remark on the gross and palpable corruptions of those plays which are obviously written with an open disregard to all purity and ...
Page 8
... live in the sure and certain hope of that immortality which is brought to light by the Gospel . For , however weighty the arguments in favor of the superior rationality of plays may be found in the scale , when a rational be- ing puts ...
... live in the sure and certain hope of that immortality which is brought to light by the Gospel . For , however weighty the arguments in favor of the superior rationality of plays may be found in the scale , when a rational be- ing puts ...
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... Our tempers are not princi- pally governed , nor our characters formed , by single marked actions ; nor is the color of our lives often determined by promi- nent detached circumstances : but the character is gradually mould- 10 PREFACE .
... Our tempers are not princi- pally governed , nor our characters formed , by single marked actions ; nor is the color of our lives often determined by promi- nent detached circumstances : but the character is gradually mould- 10 PREFACE .
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... live- Shall scenes like these , the glory of an age , Gleam from the press , nor triumph on the stage ? Forbid it , Britons ! and , as Romans brave , Like Romans boast one citizen to save . THE ARGUMENT . AMONG the great names which ...
... live- Shall scenes like these , the glory of an age , Gleam from the press , nor triumph on the stage ? Forbid it , Britons ! and , as Romans brave , Like Romans boast one citizen to save . THE ARGUMENT . AMONG the great names which ...
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... live , and vaunt his wretched freedom ; While we , obedient to the laws that guard us , Guard them , and live or die , as they decree . Pub . With reverence and astonishment I hear thee ! Thy words , my father , have convinced my reason ...
... live , and vaunt his wretched freedom ; While we , obedient to the laws that guard us , Guard them , and live or die , as they decree . Pub . With reverence and astonishment I hear thee ! Thy words , my father , have convinced my reason ...
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