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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...f Must a man never wear a sword for fear of being guilty of murder? This would be ridiculous! Under those circumstances, if by misfortune a scandal happens, and an occasion of sin be taken, it is a passive, not an active scandal, --pardon those school terms. It is an occasion taken, not given, which kind alone we are ordered to avoid, for as to the first it is impossible to avoid it, and sometimes to foresee it. All histories (not Excepting The Bible) make use of such words as express the passions, and relate great actions, of which they have been the cause. And will it be a Crime to read history, because we may there meet with something which may be an occasion of our falling?--By no means, unless it be a scandalous, profane, and loose history, such a one as will infallibly stir up dangerous passions, and then it is no longer an occasion taken but given. But this is not the character of our plays, for though they speak of love, hatred, ambition and revenge, it is not done with an intention of exciting those passions in the audience, Here is another proof that the stage adversaries have never shifted their ground- they still proceed in the same monsterous mode of attack; they will now imperiously demand--" Is there a leading hero in a play which any " christian should consider as a model to be observed, or an -' example to be followed?" Ridiculous! Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard, Lear, and Romeo are not intended by nor are there any such scandalous circumstances in them, as will infallibly produce sucb mischievous effects in their minds. Besides, as the wise Lycurgus said, " Shall we destroy all the vines, " because some men get drunk with the juice of the grape?" An ill use has and may be made of the most sacred th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236422392
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236422392
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr

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