 | 1892 - 140 sivua
...an invaluable study to every person who wishes to gain a wide command over the English language. Its vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people....expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, that would puzzle the rudest peasant. 1 He remarks that there are whole pages which do not contain... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 sivua
...that tribunal where all the vices sat in the person of Jefleries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every...wishes to obtain, a wide command over the English Ianguage. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1894 - 544 sivua
...When he was come up to Christian, he beheld him with a disdainful *"The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every...vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1895 - 294 sivua
...Channel exceeded the felicity of this description. ' The style of Bunyan,' says Macaulay, ' is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every...people. There is not an expression, if we except a few terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not... | |
 | Revere Franklin Weidner - 1895 - 312 sivua
...best Summa Theologize Evangelic'se ever produced by a writer not miraculously inspired." Its style is invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command of the English language. 16) RICHARD BAXTER (d. 1691) was noted as a preacher, a pastor, a teacher,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1896 - 282 sivua
...Channel exceeded the felicity of this description. ' The style of Bunyan,' says Macaulay, ' is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every...to obtain a wide command over the English language. His vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1896 - 384 sivua
...asure.' — Coleridge. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study ;very person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. '. vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an extf .... .. ' ; '•••/.... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 sivua
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a quick command over the English language. The vocabulary...theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant." Pilgrim's Progress is in two parts. The first, written in Bedford jail, to " divert Bunyan's vacant... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 510 sivua
...his expression. His style is plain, idiomatic, strong, and terse. Macaulay pronounces it " delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a quick command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1898 - 518 sivua
...all English books. It is peculiarly the story for the uneducated. Its " vocabulary is the vocabularv of the common people. There is not an expression,...we except a few technical terms of theology, which could puzzle the rudest peasant,'1 and yet " for magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
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I cannot but extract the following: —"The style of Bunyan Is delightful to every reader, and Invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary- Is the vocabulary of the common people.... 
