Popular Amusements (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Popular Amusements True Recreation, What is the Aim of Recreation? - Rules that Govern: 1. Our Recreations must not be Immoral, 2. Not Damaging to Christian Reputation, 3. Must not Interfere with Our Duty, 4. Must not Injure Health, 5. Must not Waste Money, 6. Must not Waste Time, 7. Ought to Improve the Mind and the Heart, 8. Ought to Impart Pleasure, The Theater, Said to be a Good Place to Learn History, etc. - Some Plays "as Good as Sermons" - Doubts - Theater always a Haunt of Evil - Must be so or Frail - The Theater that tried to be "Respectable" - Failure, and the Causes of it - Strategy and Calculation - Who must be Pleased, and how - Immodest Costume an Indispensable Attraction - Circular, and Reply of Actress - Birds of Prey - Traps Game for them - The fable of Satan and the Monk - Theater can not be Reformed - Cage of every Unclean Bird - "Come out of her, my people", Horse-Racing, Horse a Noble Beast, no doubt - Races prohibited by Civil Law - Revived under new name - Agricultural Fair About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.