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" 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 rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it... "
Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ... - Page 86
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 764 pages
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

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...
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

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...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

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...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress ...

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...
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The Riches of Bunyan

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...
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The Riches of Bunyan

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...
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The Riches of Bunyan

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...
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The Harbinger, Or, New Magazine of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion

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...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 5

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...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

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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