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" I cannot but extract the following: —"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.... "
The Class and Home-lesson Book of English Grammar - Page 68
by Charles Henry W. Biggs - 1871 - 72 pages
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The pilgrim's progress. With a critical essay [from Critical and historical ...

John Bunyan - 1865 - 634 pages
...all the vices sat in the person of Jefferies. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to...of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. \Ve have observed several pages which do not contain a single word J Entrofourtton. IX of more than...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...Litter 1 cannot but extract the following: — " The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and Invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wiiie command over the English language. The vocabulary Is the vocabulary of the common people. There...
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Illustrious women who have distinguished themselves for virtue, piety, and ...

George Frederick Pardon - 1866 - 364 pages
...Bunyau is delightful to every reader, and invaluable, as a study, to every person who wishes to ubtaiu a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...between two human beings in most plays. .... The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to...expression, if we except a few technical terms of 57 theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...Select Glossary," sub voce " Pretence." (3) "The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to...vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement...
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The Juvenile instructor and companion, Volumes 20-21

Young people - 1869 - 684 pages
...another; and this miracle the tinker has wrought. The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable, as a study, to every person who wishes...vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose...
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 8

1880 - 592 pages
...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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...«bo wishes to obtain я wide command over the English language. The vocabulary Is the vocabtusr) °* the common people. There Is not an expression, If we except a few technical terms of th-*- ' which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed severa] pases which do not cortw" i...
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A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 pages
...to every person who wishes to obtaîu u quick command over the Euglit-h language. The vocabulary in the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except it few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest pensant. We have observed several...
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Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and ...

James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 pages
...yet, in a manner, continues.* * " The style of Banyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable an a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide...the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression—if we except a few technical terms of theology—which would puzzle the rudest peasant....
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