The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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... moral 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 ...
... moral 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
... moral , as well as intellectual . They must have nothing in them which may be likely to excite any of the tempers which it is his daily task to subdue ; any of the passions which it is his constant business to keep in order . His chosen ...
... moral , as well as intellectual . They must have nothing in them which may be likely to excite any of the tempers which it is his daily task to subdue ; any of the passions which it is his constant business to keep in order . His chosen ...
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... moral in the ten- dency , than those which are avowedly objectionable ; though I readily concede all the degrees of distinction - and very important they are between such compositions and those of the opposite character . But the point ...
... moral in the ten- dency , than those which are avowedly objectionable ; though I readily concede all the degrees of distinction - and very important they are between such compositions and those of the opposite character . But the point ...
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... moral and political law . Her dictates form its institutes . Fear and shame are the capital crimes in her code . Against these , all the eloquence of her most powerful pleaders , against these her penal statutes , pistol , sword , and ...
... moral and political law . Her dictates form its institutes . Fear and shame are the capital crimes in her code . Against these , all the eloquence of her most powerful pleaders , against these her penal statutes , pistol , sword , and ...
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... morality from the playhouse , it is not , perhaps , going too far to suspect , that the principles and exam- ples ... morals of a regular attendance on public worship , which attendance is only required of us one day in a week ; and if ...
... morality from the playhouse , it is not , perhaps , going too far to suspect , that the principles and exam- ples ... morals of a regular attendance on public worship , which attendance is only required of us one day in a week ; and if ...
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