Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xv
... matter of amuse- ment now to remember that when the first plays were acted in Boston , they were advertised as moral lectures . Thus Garrick's farce of " Lethe " was produced as a satir- ical lecture called " Lethe , or Æsop in the ...
... matter of amuse- ment now to remember that when the first plays were acted in Boston , they were advertised as moral lectures . Thus Garrick's farce of " Lethe " was produced as a satir- ical lecture called " Lethe , or Æsop in the ...
Page xvi
... matter of course as a regular Sunday service . In the contemporary narra- tives of the first ten years , as in such books as Winthrop's " Journal , " there are more references to these week - day lectures than there are to public ...
... matter of course as a regular Sunday service . In the contemporary narra- tives of the first ten years , as in such books as Winthrop's " Journal , " there are more references to these week - day lectures than there are to public ...
Page xxii
... matter , it was thought well , in New England , to organize societies which could arrange for courses of lectures with more success than individuals could . The Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowl- edge was organized about ...
... matter , it was thought well , in New England , to organize societies which could arrange for courses of lectures with more success than individuals could . The Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowl- edge was organized about ...
Page xxiv
... matters of public interest were much more free than were the sermons of most of the churches . There came , therefore , upon the lecture platform a body of public speakers who had nothing to do with physical science and discussion of ...
... matters of public interest were much more free than were the sermons of most of the churches . There came , therefore , upon the lecture platform a body of public speakers who had nothing to do with physical science and discussion of ...
Page xxvii
... matter of science or literature , as a religious guide would occupy in the matter of religion . In the suggestion which I have thus made , I do not draw upon fancy for a possibility , Utopian or imaginary , or such as has never been put ...
... matter of science or literature , as a religious guide would occupy in the matter of religion . In the suggestion which I have thus made , I do not draw upon fancy for a possibility , Utopian or imaginary , or such as has never been put ...
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