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. There is not an expression, if we except... The National Quarterly Review - Sivu 425muokkaaja - 1860Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...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....theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sivua
...style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes O observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
| John Bunyan - 1881 - 428 sivua
...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....theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
| Appleton Morgan - 1881 - 366 sivua
...ancients, or the elegant and punctilious Norman of the court. " The Bunyan vocabulary," says Macaulay, " is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical theological terms, which would puzzle the rudest peasant." In short, we need not pause, marvelous as... | |
| 1881 - 602 sivua
...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....vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. For magnificence, far pathos, for vehement exhortations, for subtle disquisitions, for every purpose... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 sivua
...style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language....theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1883 - 576 sivua
...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....of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. \Ve have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet... | |
| John Swett - 1884 - 404 sivua
...Biinyan | is delightful to every reader, and invaluable | as a study | to every person | who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language....theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages \ which do not contain a single word of moi-e than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 sivua
...style of Banyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes han that which these works indicate. The qualities...contemplative statesman appear to have been Wended observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
| Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 sivua
...style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable at a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language....theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer... | |
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