http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?subject%3Dessay;subject-join%3Dexact;smode%3Dsimple;brand%3Ddefault;f1-date%3D1798%3A%3A04%3A%3A21 Results for your query: subject=essay;subject-join=exact;smode=simple;brand=default;f1-date=1798::04::21 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04357.xml TO ascertain the tendency of plays is by no means difficult. There is no more powerful mode of winning the attention, and swaying the pas- sions of mankind. Mental power is quite a different consideration from the moral application of that power. Genius affords no security from error. The writers of plays have been gene- rally necessitous and profligate. They have therefore written under the in- fluence of wrong conceptions of duty and happiness; and, in order to effect their purpose, which was gain, have deemed themselves obliged to hu- mour the caprices and pamper the vicious appetites, of those who fre- quent these spectacles. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04357.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04360.xml WHETHER most good, or most evil flows from theatrical exhi- bitions? appears to be a question a correspondent wishes to have decided. This question has given rise to vari- ous thoughts, on the subject; should they lead to the wished-for decision they are at T. Markright's service. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-04360.xml Tue, 21 Apr 1970 12:00:00 GMT