 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...  Critical and historical essays - Page 192by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...person of Jeffries. 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...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pages
...with its theology. " The style of Bnnyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...study, to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary ¡a the vocabulary of the common people. There is not...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet THE PL AG UH IN 1665. (An Extract from Calamy's Life of Baxter, Abridgement, p. 583. ) "In the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...person of Jefferies. 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...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...he says of Bunyan: " 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...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...language in his hands : "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...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he* meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command of the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...person of Jeffries. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to ew, by the murder of the best of kings, by the war...in the cause of justice, mercy,, and toleration. Yet no writer hag said more exactly what he meant to •ay. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...person of JefFeries. 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...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. 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...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement... | |
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