| Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, " Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
| Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England during... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 368 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language , no book which shows so well how...Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse, and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's Essay on Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory... | |
| John Bunyan - Spiritual directors - 1850 - 500 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. T- B- Macanlay— Essays. To the names of Baxter and Howe must be added the name of a man far below... | |
| John Bunyan - Theology - 1850 - 500 pages
...our literature on which we could BO readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English languageno book which shows so well how rich that language is...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. T , B - Maeanlay- Essays. To the names of Baxter and Howe must be added the name of a man far below... | |
| John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...literature on which we could BO readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no took which shows so well how rich that language is in its...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. T- B- Macaulay— Essays. To the names of Baxter and Howe must be added the name of a man far below... | |
| Theology - 1859 - 606 pages
...shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all it has borrowed. Cowper said, forty or fifty years...John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of moving a sneer. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England... | |
| Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how...is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has improved by all that it has borrowed." And again, "Though there were many clever men in England daring... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how...Roscommon's " Essay on Translated Verse," and the Duke of Buckinghamshire's " Essay on Poetry," appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory... | |
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