The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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Page 7
... persons were introduced as interlocutors ; in which , events too solemn for exhibition , and subjects too awful for detail , were brought before the audience with a formal gravity more offensive than levity itself . The superstitions of ...
... persons were introduced as interlocutors ; in which , events too solemn for exhibition , and subjects too awful for detail , were brought before the audience with a formal gravity more offensive than levity itself . The superstitions of ...
Page 8
... persons , who would not , perhaps , so early and incautiously expose their youthful offspring to the temp- tations ... person , who occasionally indulges in an amusement not conso- nant to his general views and pursuits , inconceivably ...
... persons , who would not , perhaps , so early and incautiously expose their youthful offspring to the temp- tations ... person , who occasionally indulges in an amusement not conso- nant to his general views and pursuits , inconceivably ...
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... persons all due praise for comparative sobriety . But while they go at all , the principle is the same ; for they sanction , by going sometimes , a diversion which is not to be defended on strict Chris- tian principles . Indeed , their ...
... persons all due praise for comparative sobriety . But while they go at all , the principle is the same ; for they sanction , by going sometimes , a diversion which is not to be defended on strict Chris- tian principles . Indeed , their ...
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... persons who , should he realize these senti- ments , would probably be the arbiters of his conduct . These are to him a kind of anticipated jury . The scene is as it were the re- hearsal of an acquittal at the bar of that world whose ...
... persons who , should he realize these senti- ments , would probably be the arbiters of his conduct . These are to him a kind of anticipated jury . The scene is as it were the re- hearsal of an acquittal at the bar of that world whose ...
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... persons supporting the different parts , and by their dress , their tones , their gestures , heightening the representation into a kind of enchantment . It is the concom itant pageantry , it is the splendor of the spectacle , and even ...
... persons supporting the different parts , and by their dress , their tones , their gestures , heightening the representation into a kind of enchantment . It is the concom itant pageantry , it is the splendor of the spectacle , and even ...
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