A Defence of the Stage: Or An Enquiry Into the Real Qualities of Theatrical Entertainments, Their Scope and Tendency. Being a Reply to a Sermon Entitled "The Evil of Theatrical Amusements Stated and Illustrated" ... by the Rev. Dr. John B. Bennett. Including an Examination of the Authorities on which that Sermon is FoundedMilliken and son, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... true , but neither the one nor the other is proved or disproved by the counter assertion . When men become angry with each other , and exchange epithets instead of ex- aming arguments , it is painful to read , and unpro- fitable to ...
... true , but neither the one nor the other is proved or disproved by the counter assertion . When men become angry with each other , and exchange epithets instead of ex- aming arguments , it is painful to read , and unpro- fitable to ...
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... true our experience doth find those Aphorisms of Mercurius Trismegistus , ' Αδύνατον τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐνθάδε καθαρεύειν τῆς κακίας , to purge goodness quite and clean from all mixture of evil , here is a thing impossible . Again , rò un λιαν ...
... true our experience doth find those Aphorisms of Mercurius Trismegistus , ' Αδύνατον τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐνθάδε καθαρεύειν τῆς κακίας , to purge goodness quite and clean from all mixture of evil , here is a thing impossible . Again , rò un λιαν ...
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... true fountain of eternal life , because human depravity has polluted its waters ? Certainly not . Neither will he , de- scending to the employments and recreations of the world , with the desire of truth in his heart , and his reasoning ...
... true fountain of eternal life , because human depravity has polluted its waters ? Certainly not . Neither will he , de- scending to the employments and recreations of the world , with the desire of truth in his heart , and his reasoning ...
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... true spirit of Christian moderation , then is the Theatre indeed a leviathan in wickedness . It is not merely sin- ful , but a concentration of every known sin ; not simply criminal , but an embodied essence of every crime forbidden in ...
... true spirit of Christian moderation , then is the Theatre indeed a leviathan in wickedness . It is not merely sin- ful , but a concentration of every known sin ; not simply criminal , but an embodied essence of every crime forbidden in ...
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... true , but leading crimes and vices cannot be included as mere " moral doubts . " There is no leading crime of which human nature is capable , that is not dis- tinctly or by name prohibited in the Scriptures , and none more clearly than ...
... true , but leading crimes and vices cannot be included as mere " moral doubts . " There is no leading crime of which human nature is capable , that is not dis- tinctly or by name prohibited in the Scriptures , and none more clearly than ...
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Page 154 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 8 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 83 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
Page 153 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be. Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign.
Page 83 - Comedy will (I think) by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...
Page 154 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
Page 14 - And they prayed, and said. Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
Page 36 - l vero condito in molli versi I più schivi, allettando, ha persuaso: Così all'egro fanciul porgiamo aspersi Di soave licor gli orli del vaso; Succhi amari ingannato intanto ei beve, E dall
Page 91 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to he productive of much evil.
Page 84 - Physic (the best rampire to our often-assaulted bodies), being abused, teach poison, the most violent destroyer? Doth not knowledge of Law, whose end is to even and right all things, being abused, grow the crooked fosterer of horrible injuries?