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...The Holy War is perhaps John Bunyan's second most popular work, after The Pilgrim's Progress. It tells the story of afierce battle to take control of a city from its rightful ruler. (Summary by Thadine)...

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...John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), in the Parish of Elstow, England. He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, arguably the most ...

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... most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, describing a Christian's journey through life to reach heaven. Part 1 was written by John Bunyan in 1679 whilst he was imprisoned for conducting unauthorised religious services, whilst Part 2 was not written until 1684, and is not included in many versions of this text. This recording includes both parts, and...

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...Le pélerinage d'un nommé Chrétien est un roman allégorique de John Bunyan, publié en 1678. L'auteur rédigea cet ouvrage en 1675, alors qu'il était emprisonné pour avoir violé le Conventicle Act, qui punissait les personnes coupables d'avoir organisé des services religieux non autorisés ...

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...Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps one of the most significant pieces of Christian literature, second only to the Bible. Grace Abounding follows Bunyan’s struggle to find true repentance and forgiveness,...

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... to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. The...

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...d fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness ... ...tunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of th...

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...0-delige) serie als feuilleton in een tijdschrift. De titel Vanity Fair is geïnspireerd op het allegorische verhaal The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) van John Bunyan over het dorpje Vanity. Vanitas Vanitatum. Wie van ons is gelukkig in deze wereld? Wie van ons heeft wat hij verlangt?, of zoo hij het heeft wie is voldaan? (Samenvatting geschreven door nl.Wikipedia)...

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...in judgment, from the time of Enoch, the first of inspired preachers, until the time of John, the last of them, had been upheld before the elect chu... ... the world forth, under all possible aspects in his last discourse with his disciples, (John xiv. xv. xvi.) and especially in his last prayer for th... ...arth.” Acts i. 7,8. Having studied this passage; in connexion with the four chapters of John’s gospel referred to above, and in connexion with the el... ...hly things” as distinguished from “the heavenly things,” or the things of the kingdom, (John iii.) it was a very easy matter to derive and set forth... ...ed but is not so prophetically considered, forasmuch as all the prophets from Isaiah to John do regard the taking of Babylon by Cyrus, Coming of Me... ...nister must necessarily adopt this method, to which we have a notable exception in John Bunyan, and William Huntingdon, two most able preachers, and...

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...c… Their first names became repetitious duplicates of their ancestors: Son of John… Johnson. These labels-identities were inflicted on each person... ...by glorifying the mighty treekillers called lumberjacks like the mythical Paul Bunyan. By glorifying the mass killing of animals. By glorifying the... ...oint in trying to become a perfect machine? The famous African American slave John Henry tried to out-hammer a steam engine. It made him famous. I... ...y changing. They would have you believe rich people are like everyone else. Johnny Carson said: ‘Rich People are different’. But as the richest ... ...ook up arms against the church and published their criticisms and grievances. John Calvin was one of them. Calvinism and Lutheranism spread through... ...m the lower classes. Then the idea of industry and thrift… and the idea that John Calvin put forth… the idea that usury was not such a bad sin after...

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...te Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Cha... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Cha... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Cha... ...repeat the narrative or the reflections given elsewhere; and of 4 Life of John Coleridge Patteson these, it has seemed best only to print that which ... ...while thoughts are generally best expressed in the correspondence with Sir John Taylor Coleridge, to whom the Nephew seems to have written with a kind... ..., and of 627 Yo n g e quiet meditation over the present, reminding one of Bunyan’s Pilgrims in the Land of Beulah, continues at intervals through the...

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...arly manifestoes against Napoleon we find, it is true, done in the regular John Bull style, with the Gilray model for the little up- start Corsican: b... ...ry same consolation. “My curse upon them every one, They’ve hanged my braw John Highlandman; * * * * * And now a widow I must mourn Departed joys that... ...parted joys that ne’er return; No comfort but a hearty can When I think on John Highlandman.” Sweet “raucle carlin,” she has none of the sentimentalit... ... not known. The allegory is as good, as earnest, and as fanciful as one of John Bunyan’s, and we have often fancied there was a similarity between the... ...known. The allegory is as good, as earnest, and as fanciful as one of John Bunyan’s, and we have often fancied there was a similarity between the men.... ...icts with evident enthusiasm. Famous books in their day were Cruikshank’s “John Gilpin” and “Epping Hunt;” for though our artist does not draw horses ...

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...mes, when much excited with his subject, he had an odd way — compounded of John Bunyan, and Balfour of Burley — of taking his great quarto Bible under... ...when much excited with his subject, he had an odd way — compounded of John Bunyan, and Balfour of Burley — of taking his great quarto Bible under his ... ...d it up again in wood and plaster; widen it a little; throw in part of St. John’s Wood; put green blinds outside all the private houses, with a red cu... ...mmer where I live, the sun don’t. No. I’m a brown forester, I am. I an’t a Johnny Cake. There are no smooth skins where I live. We’re rough men there.... ...y act for yourselves, you may. I have pinted out the way. Down Easters and Johnny Cakes can follow if they please. I an’t a Johnny Cake, I an’t. I am ... ...eard him muttering to himself, with a short laugh of defi ance, ‘I an’t a Johnny Cake, — I an’t. I’m from the brown forests of the Mississippi, I am,...

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...aid I, “that efforts have been made for that purpose from time immemorial. Bunyan mentions that above twenty thousand cartloads of wholesome instruc ... ...ction to the traveller of liberal mind and expansive stomach The reader of John Bunyan will be glad to know that Christian’s old friend Evangelist, wh... ... to the traveller of liberal mind and expansive stomach The reader of John Bunyan will be glad to know that Christian’s old friend Evangelist, who was... ...orable change in reference to the celestial pilgrimage. It would have done Bunyan’s heart good to see it. Instead of a lonely and ragged man with a hu... ... standing, and had formerly been a noted stop ping place for pilgrims. In Bunyan’s road book it is men tioned as the Interpreter’s House. “I have lo... ...he spot where he had so disastrously encountered Christian. Consulting Mr. Bunyan’s road book, I perceived that we must now be within a few miles of t... ...h that this whole gloomy passage was a dream. At the end of the valley, as John Bunyan mentions, is a 77 Hawthorne cavern, where, in his days, dwelt ...

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...y if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anything about King John?” He spent three delightful minutes in assur- ing himself of the fact ... ...II It was a frail and blue and lonely Carol who trotted to the flat of the Johnson Marburys for Sunday evening supper. Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and... ...rt), but mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendenc... ...ubled by commission-houses or shortages in freight-cars) Will- iam sold to John. The women who had cheerfully gone bathing all summer looked doubtful ... ...ted by Carol and confirmed by the committee, the persons of the play were: John Grimm, a millionaire ………………… Guy Pollock His wife……………………………… Miss Vid... ...dy’s adventures in the woods, and how he snared a wapaloosie and knew Paul Bunyan, why, I don’t mind being a bum. It’s just for them that I mind. Say!...

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...ent of a zealous Jacobite in his favour, was received as conclusive by Dr. Johnson and other persons who might pretend to impartiality. Dr. Cameron ha... ... on doubting with Dirleton, and resolving those doubts with Stewart, [‘Sir John Nisbett of Dirleton’s Doubts and Questions upon the Law, Especially of... ...s we frequent, and as oats are sometimes as speedily converted into ale as John Barleycorn himself, I shall keep a look-out after Master Sam. Stupid f... ...her Joshua is mitigated in his opinions, and correspondeth with our friend John Scot of Amwell, who hath himself con- structed verses well approved of... ... country of the legal interference of the other; remem- ber, that even Sir John Fielding said to my father that he could never trace a rogue beyond th... ...ed on the scene with the light step of a liberated captive; and, like John Bunyan’s Pilgrim, could have found in my heart to sing as I went on my way....

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...pe; Wemyss (pronounce Weems) with its bat-haunted caves, where the Chevalier Johnstone, on his flight from Culloden, passed a night of superstitious t... ...esent in a dream; sometimes I cannot but suppose my Brownies have been aping Bunyan, and yet in no case with what would 118 Across the Plains possibl... ... of Shakespeare I am not so well acquainted, but he was a fine poet. Keats – John Keats, sir – he was a very fine poet.” With such references, such tr... ...was already brimful of Shelley and the atheis- tical Queen Mab, and “Keats – John Keats, sir.” And I have often wondered how he came by these acquirem... ...s to admit) he plainly bracketed agnosticism with beer and skittles. Keats – John Keats, sir – and Shelley were his favourite bards. I cannot remember...

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..................................... 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM................................................................................................................. 165...

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...R; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL... ...s an Allegory, and a beautiful, just and serious one: but consider whether Bunyan’s Allegory could have preceded the Faith it symbolizes! The Faith ha... ...e Allegory is the product of the certainty, not the producer of it; not in Bunyan’s nor in any other case. For Paganism, therefore, we have still to i... ... be. Hero-worship endures forever while man endures. Boswell venerates his Johnson, right truly even in the Eigh- teenth century. The unbelieving Fren... ... to be higher, beautifuler, nobler. Yes, from Norse Odin to English Samuel Johnson, from the divine Founder of Christianity to the withered Pontiff of... ...mes from the hand of Nature, is ever the same kind of thing: Odin, Luther, Johnson, Burns; I hope to make it appear that these are all originally of o... ...le with wearisome iteration; has never done repeating them. A brave Samuel Johnson, in his forlorn garret, might con over the Biographies of Authors i...

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...nd much-accused man of Tonga, and his son, with the artificial joint to his arm— where the assassins shot him in shooting at his father. Baker’s appea... ...ters; lunched in the boarding-house, played on my pipe; went out and did some of my messages; dined at a French restaurant, and returned to play draug... ...k at Vailima I shall resume the practice of the diary letter. A good deal is changed. We are more; solitude does not attend me as before; the night is... ... that remains on the mind is probably just enough. I have been enchanted with the unveiling of Revelations. And how picturesque that return of the fal... ...d me of the fact no later agone than last night. ‘Why don’t you leave that to the young men, Mr. Stevenson?’ said she—but when I remember that I felt ... ...and ink, and should leave something, no, not good, but not all bad—a very genuine appreciation of these folks. You are to remember besides there is th...

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...this pauper testify to his having received the gospel of humility? A gentle- man met him in the workhouse, and said (which I myself really thought goo... ...e another case. Take your own case. Y ou are going off by railway, from any T erminus. Y ou have twenty minutes for dinner, before you go. You want yo... ...shy metropolitan neighbourhoods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of G... ...of a most exemplary couple whose only improvidence appears to have been, that they spent the last of their little All on soap. They are a man and woma... ...r little All on soap. They are a man and woman, spotless to be- hold—John Anderson, with the frost on his short smock- frock instead of his ‘pow,’ att... ...t was necessary for the mem- bers to be knocked on the head with Gas, Air, Water, Food, the Solar System, the Geological periods, Criticism on Milton,...

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... almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial ground, on Isaac Johnson’s lot, and round about 39 Hawthorne his grave, which subsequently ... ...e voice which had called her attention was that of the reverend and famous John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston, a great scholar, like most of ... ...n of King James’s reign, caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger. The impression made by his aspect, so rigid ... ...grasp. This creed was never taught, for instance, by the venerable pastor, John Wilson, whose beard, white as a snow drift, was seen over Governor Be... ...King’s Chapel has since been built. It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson’s home field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serio... ... or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan’s awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim’s face....