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" That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the... "
Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 134
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pages
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. * That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress. " That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 20

Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the " Pilgrim's Progress "...
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Literature: A Fifth Reader

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the "Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the " Pilgrim's Progress "...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. " That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress. " That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he...
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Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 506 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it ohtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pil• ."X grim's Progress...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ..., Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it....was one of the two or three works which he wished longer.3 It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the...
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Heath Readers: Primer [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In every nursery the " Pilgrim's Progress" is a greater favorite...
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The Heath Readers: Primer, [First-sixth reader]

1903 - 360 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the " Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In every nursery the " Pilgrim's Progress" is a greater favorite...
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The Hawthorne Readers, Book 5

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favor of the "Pilgrim's Progress." That work was one of...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the " Pilgrim's Progress "...
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The Book-lovers' Anthology

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...148. Boswell. — Macaulay writes in his review of Southey's edition of The Pilgrim's Progress : ' Doctor Johnson, all whose studies were desultory,...extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories.' Boswell relates that Dr. Johnson ' had a peculiar facility...
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