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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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...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....

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... a mixed group of Swedes, Danes, and Norsemen, one of whom, generally known by the name of ‘Johnny,’ in spite of his own protests, greatly diverted us... ...Miss Lizzie with two dolls tucked clumsily under her arm. She was fol- lowed by her brother John, a year or so younger than her- self, not simply to p... ...ively from people’s raiment. There was no colour more brilliant than a heather mixture; ‘My Johnny’s grey breeks,’ well pol- ished over the oar on the... ...Travel to which it gives light lay, for long years, the heroine of the sweet old ballad of ‘Johnnie Faa’—she who, at the call of the gipsies’ songs, ‘... ...nt, Rob Roy, Waverley, and Guy Mannering, the Voyages of Captain Woods Rogers, Fuller’s and Bunyan’s Holy Wars, The Reflections of Robinson Crusoe, Th...

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...urke and Toryism eye askance. On thee too, for country’s sake, O Chevalier John Paul, be a word spent, or misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones... ...ined Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pulling grim-... ...ll he see the issue. Janus Bifrons, or Mr. Facing-both-ways, as vernacular Bunyan has it! They walk there, in the meanwhile, these two Januses, with o...

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...n be expected to en- dure long together without danger of misanthropy. Old John’s wooden, deep-wrinkled face was the first ob- ject that met Arthur’s ... ...ym at the same time. Do you hear?” “Y es, I hear, I hear, Cap’n,” said old John very deliberately, following the young master into the stable. John co... ...canter this morning.” “Nay, your honour, I donna see as that can be,” said John. “Not be? Why not?” “Why, she’s got lamed.” “Lamed, confound you! What... ...anguage, mingled with soothing “who-ho’s” while the leg was examined; that John stood by with quite as much emotion as if he had been a cunningly carv... ...ood out in high relief as he smoked his pipe against the stable wall, when John brought up Rattler. “An’ I wish he’d get the devil to do’s grooming fo... ...s Al- manac, T aylor’s Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim’s Progress, with Bunyan’s Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey’s Dictionary, Valentine ...

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... little fishes, you would make them speak like great wales.” —Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it wa... ...of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.” —John Hunter’ s Account of the Dissection of a Whale. (A small sized one.) “... ...big bed that. Why, afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one nigh... ...ike the following, but I do not pretend to quote:— Sacred to the Memory of John Talbot, Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Isle... ...t, thou great demo- cratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly ham- mere... ...to torture us naturalists.” Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy. Neverthe- les...

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............................. 18 COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN ...................................................................... 18 JOHN BARLEYCORN............................................................................................................................................. 19 LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD ...................................

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... ...................................................................... 18 JOHN BARLEYCORN............................................................... .......................................................................... 23 JOHN THE BAPTIST.............................................................. ............................................................. 24 THE SA V AGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS ................................................. .......................................................................... 38 JOHN ......................................................................... .......................................................................... 41 JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS.................................................. ...tions, and claims to be greater than Solomon or Jonah. When reproached, as Bunyan was, for resorting to the art of fiction when teaching in parables, ... ... to reply that we shall be, on the contrary, in the position of the man in Bunyan’s riddle who found that “the more he threw away, the more he had. “W... ...in England. Paul’s fantastic conception of the damned Adam, represented by Bunyan as a pilgrim with a great burden of sins on his back, corresponded t... ...ust there- fore be continually ashamed of itself and its present and past. Bunyan’s pilgrim wants to get rid of his bundle of sins; but he also wants ...

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.................................. 28 CHAPTER XII RICHARD I., LION-HEART A.D. 1189?1199 ................................................ 31 CHAPTER XIII JOHN, LACKLAND. A.D. 1199?1216 ............................................................ 34 CHAPTER XIV HENRY III., OF WINCHESTER. A.D. 1216?1272 ....................................... 36 CHAPTER XV EDWARD I., LONGSHANKS....

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...1189—1199 ................................................ 31 CHAPTER XIII JOHN, LACKLAND. A.D. 1199—1216 ............................................... ... by a fall from his horse, and there were only two left alive, Richard and John. Just at this time, news came that the Mahommedans in the Holy Land ha... ... to pardon was brought to him, and the first name he saw in it was that of John, his youngest son, and his darling, the one who had never before rebel... ...men; besides, tidings came from home that King Philip and his own brother, John, were doing all the mischief they could. So he made a peace for three ... ...ed a ransom— that is, a sum of money to buy his freedom—though his brother John tried to prevent them, and the King of France did his best to hinder t... ... wrote his Paradise Lost, or rather dictated it to his daughters; and John Bunyan, a tinker, who had been a Puritan preacher, wrote the Pilgrim’s Prog...

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............ 141 CHAPTER VIII ? SAMUEL PEPYS .......................................................................................... 170 CHAPTER IX ? JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190...

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............................................................ 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190... ... best of the comparison. There is now a Villon Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual di... ... of his nature into his work, and impregnate it from end to end. If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswe... ...e them with a quicker pulse. Not far from twenty years later, when Captain John Brown was taken at Harper’s Ferry, Thoreau was the first to come forwa... ... yet I think it should become a house- hold word like that of Garibaldi or John Brown. Some day soon, we may expect to hear more fully the details of ... ...e it than you would change a sublimity of Shakespeare’s, a homely touch of Bunyan’s, or a favoured reminiscence of your own. There never was a man nea...

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...ights of culture? Or may I remind you that we have some reason to doubt if John the Baptist were gen- teel; and in the case of Peter, on whose career ... .... 158. *Wodrow’s Church History, Book II. chap. i. sect. I. 59 Lay Morals John Neilson, the Laird of Corsack, a worthy man, was, unfortunately for hi... ...orie of the Holy Warre, fourth ed. 1651. 61 Lay Morals One of the latter, John M’Lellan of Barscob, drew a pistol and shot the corporal in the body. ... ...ifted hands for victory.* But still the Royalist troops closed in. Captain John Paton was observed by Dalzell, who deter- mined to capture him with hi... ...n stone at Rullion Green: HERE AND NEAR TO THIS PLACE LYES THE REVEREND MR JOHN CROOKSHANK AND MR ANDREW MCCORMICK MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL AND ABOUT F... ...scribed as ‘illus trated by nearly three hundred engravings, and memoir of Bunyan.’ On the outside it is lettered ‘Bagster’s Illustrated Edition,’ and... ...hese wonderful little pictures may lay claim to be the best illustrator of Bunyan. They are not only good illustrations, like so many others; but they... ...ions, like so many others; but they are like so few, good illustrations of Bunyan. Their spirit, in defect and quality, is still the same as his own. ... ...down and dreamed a dream, as literal, as quaint, and almost as apposite as Bunyan’s; and text and pictures make but the two sides of the same home- sp...

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...liam Blake as superfi- cially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendh... ...s have something morally hardier in them that culminates occasionally in a Bunyan, a Burns, or a Carlyle. But observe, this aristocracy, which was ove... ...ou. Even Plato and Boswell, as the dramatists who invented Socrates and Dr Johnson, impress me more deeply than the romantic playwrights. Ever since, ... ...tage combinations of T appertitian romance with the police intel- ligence. Bunyan, Blake, Hogarth and T urner (these four apart and above all the Engl... ...th the purpose of the world as he understood it. The contrast is enormous: Bunyan’s coward stirs your blood more than Shakespear’s hero, who actually ... ...ainst the wall opposite him are two busts on pillars: one, to his left, of John Bright; the other, to his right, of Mr Herbert Spencer. Between them h... ...or me. [He reads it]. The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion by John Tanner, M.I.R.C., Member of the Idle Rich Class. OCTAVIUS. [smiling] ... ...r duty to her parents. [He starts off like a goaded ox in the direction of John Bright, in whose expression there is no sympathy for him. As he speaks... ...she has a duty to me. I won’t have it: I will not have it. She must forbid John Tanner the house; and so must you. The parlormaid returns. OCTAVIUS. B...

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...to Anacharsis Klootz a Washington, to Mrs Proudie a Don Juan, to Aspasia a John Knox: in short, to everyone his complement rather than his counterpart... ...ever to prevent Shakespear from being as decent as More was before him, or Bunyan after him, and as self-respecting as Raleigh or Sidney, except the t... ...oes from his villains much more by what they do than by what they are. Don John in Much Ado is a true villain: a man with a malicious will; but he is ... ...t political sentiments! Suppose they are merely a record of observed fact. John Stuart Mill told our British workmen that they were mostly liars. Carl... ...gy. Then consider Shakespear’s kings and lords and gentle- men! Would even John Ball or Jeremiah complain that they are flattered? Surely a more merci... ...hat inordinate man in the same breath with Stratford’s worthiest alderman. John Shakespear wedded but once: Harry Tudor was married six times. You sho...

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...t is a pure gift— Loss of it makes physical world look different— Tolstoy— Bunyan— Alline—Morbid fear— Such cases need a supernatural religion for rel... ...rsion” cases—Other cases—Gradual and sudden unification—Tolstoy’s recovery—Bunyan’s. LECTURE IX CONVERSION Case of Stephen Brad- ley—The psychology of... ... Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but unco... ... on for present delight. When I recall the years … I am filled with a [34] John Weiss: Life of Theodore Parker, i. 152, 32. 85 William James sense of... ...sease much as our mind-curers do. “What is the answer which Jesus sends to John the Baptist?” asks Harnack, and says it is this: “‘The blind see, and ... ...- ing and removal of misery, of need, of sickness, by these actual effects John is to see that the new time has arrived. The casting out of devils is ... ...mewhat different type of religious mel- ancholy enshrined in literature in John Bunyan’s au- tobiography. Tolstoy’s preoccupations were largely object... ...t different type of religious mel- ancholy enshrined in literature in John Bunyan’s au- tobiography. Tolstoy’s preoccupations were largely objective, ... ...urpose and meaning of life in gen- eral was what so troubled him; but poor Bunyan’s troubles were over the condition of his own personal self. He was ...

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...to reflection, ignorance of his neighbours is the character of the typical John Bull. His is a domineering nature, steady in fight, imperious to comma... ...e an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the... ...ountries; perhaps in all, men are most ignorant of the foreigners at home. John Bull is igno- rant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India; bu... ... human and serious relations, that you should actually feel an interest in John Bull, and desire and invite a return of interest from him, may argue s... ... astonish us by sallies, witty, innocent and inhumane; and by a misapplied Johnsonian pleasantry, demolish honest sentiment. I can still see and hear ... ...man was one of those who prospered in the valley of humiliation; – of whom Bunyan wrote that, “Though Christian had the hard hap to meet in the valley...

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...his career – The Campbell- Jacksons – Fleeming’s mother – Fleeming’s uncle John. IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming... ...ass from William Jenkin, Mayor of Folkestone in 1555, to his contemporary ‘John Jenkin, of the Citie of York, Receiver General of the County,’ and the... ...kable man who was my friend, with the accession of his great- grandfather, John Jenkin. This John Jenkin, a grandson of Damaris Kingsley, of the famil... ... with the Frewens in particu- lar their connection is singularly involved. John and his wife were each descended in the third degree from another Tho-... ...en, Vicar of Northiam, and brother to Accepted Frewen, Archbishop of York. John’s mother had married a Frewen for a second husband. And the last compl... ... to Socrates, Isaiah, David, St. Bernard, the Jansenists, Luther, Mahomet, Bunyan – yes, and George Eliot: of course you do not believe that this some...

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...f adventures, the original form of the manuscript was finally printed by Mr. John Bigelow, and is here reproduced in recognition of its value as a pic... ...he grew too old to follow business longer, when he went to live with his son John, a dyer at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, with whom my father served an ap... ... the manor there. My grand father had four sons that grew up, viz.: Thomas, John, Ben jamin and Josiah. I will give you what account I can of them, ... ...died on the same day,” you said, “one might have supposed a transmigration.” John was bred a dyer, I believe of woolens. Benjamin was The Autobiograph... ...si ness for two years, that is, till I was twelve years old; and my brother John, who was bred to that business, having left my father, married, and ... ... books. Pleased with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enabl... ...hich he desir’d I would dry for him. It proved to be my old favorite author, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in Dutch, finely printed on good paper, with...

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...ent that it had for me: and that from a man cleaning a byre! Y ou see what John Knox and his schools have done. SA TURDAY . – This has been a charming... ...was out of the humour. Only, I am beginning to see some- thing great about John Knox and Queen Mary: I like them both so much, that I feel as if I cou... ... and a half: she speaks six languages. She and her sister (aet. 8) and May Johnstone (aet. 8) are the delight of my life. Last night I saw them all da... ...– that is the two Russian ladies, Robinet the French painter, Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone, two governesses, and fit- ful kids joining us at intervals – pla... ...L MENTONE, TUESDAY, 13TH JANUARY 1874. … I lost a Philipine to little Mary Johnstone last night; so to-day I sent her a rubbishing doll’s toilet, and ... ...his spot, our garden and our view, are sub-celestial. I sing daily with my Bunyan, that great bard, ‘I dwell already the next door to Heaven!’ If you ... ...t – the other species is no ornament to any gentleman’s Back Garden.’ JNO. BUNYAN. 251 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLV...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in B...

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...svenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charl... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charl... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Life of Johnson by James Boswell Boswell’s Life of Johnson Abridged... ...inceton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswell’s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell’s criti- cisms, comments, and notes,... ...I have omitted most of Boswell’s criti- cisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson’s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the co... ...me, “Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.”’* Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. ‘His Pilgrim’s Progress has great merit, both for in- ventio... ...ry much like the poem of Dante; yet there was no translation of Dante when Bunyan wrote. There is reason to think that he had read Spenser.’ A proposi...

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... In English there is an excellent prose translation of the Inferno, by Dr. John Carlyle, a man well known to the reader of his brother’s Correspondenc... ...ies or religious dispositions. They are abstrac- tions which the genius of Bunyan fails to inform with vital- ity sufficient to kindle the imagination... ... the German translation of the Divine Comedy by Philalethes. the late King John of Saxony; to Bartoli’s life of Dante in his Storia della Letteratura ... ...med to me not less wide nor larger than those that in my beauti- ful Saint John are made as place for the baptizers 2 one of 1 The next bolgia or pi... ... the baptizers 2 one of 1 The next bolgia or pit. 2 “My beautiful Saint John” is the Baptistery at Florence. In Dante’s time the infants, born duri... ...ng the year, were all here baptized by immersion, mostly on the day of St. John Bap- tist, the 24th of June. There was a large circular font in the mi...

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...ngland and (later) of Desmond in Ireland. The novelist was the grandson of John Fielding, Canon of Salisbury, the fifth son of the first Earl of Desmo... ...is sister Sa- rah, also a novelist, who wrote David Simple; of the second, John, afterwards Sir John Fielding, who, though blind, suc- ceeded his half... ... beyond another. He was neither of those about Addison, nor of those about Johnson. No intimate friend of his has left us anything elaborate about him... ...position, and, lastly, of the cat for the dog who touzles and worries her. Johnson partly inherited or shared Richardson’s aversion, partly was blinde... ...le of appreciating it for reasons other than political. It is certain that Johnson, sane and ro- bust as he was, was never quite at ease before genius... ...stume, choked and fettered by their au- thors’ want of art. The quality of Bunyan’s knowledge of men was not much inferior to Shakespeare’s, or at lea...

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...h and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fict... ...ruth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of t... ...ruth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...h and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated By John Oxenford INTRODUCTION By Thomas Carlyle I T WOULD APPEAR that for inqu... ...sider our leading writ- ers; consider the poetry of Gray, and the prose of Johnson. The first a laborious mosaic, through the hard stiff lineaments of... ...epigram, the allegory , the quaint device, reminding us of some Quarles or Bunyan; and in the Fausts, the T assos, the Mignons, which in their pure an...

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...rn in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had 8 Middlemarch come on; or any of the ot... ...the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think that emerald is more beau... ... them for myself, but ladies usually are fond of these Maltese dogs. Here, John, take this dog, will you?” The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eye... ...relations quite county people.” “Y es,” said Fred. “There was a Lydgate at John’s who spent no end of money. I find this man is a second cousin of his... ... good gentle- manly game; and young Vincy is not a clodhopper. If your son John took to billiards, now, he’d make a fool of himself.” “Y our nephew Jo... ...d both fall sud- denly into the bog. The name of the slough was Despond.” —Bunyan. WHEN ROSAMOND WA S QUIET, and Lydgate had left her, hoping that she... ...n guilty of death.” —Pilgrim’s Progress. WHEN IMMORTAL BUNYAN makes his picture of the persecut- ing passions bringing in their ve...

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...tle a fine name for proud poverty, and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry. We may all shoot a wild bull that woul... ...gdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day’s work; but the things of l... ...inegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception. Dr. Johnson is reported to have said, —”If the child says he looked out of this... ...melted into air. If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate. What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on ... ...sses; but with- out railing or precision his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine,—”It is a nob... ...ain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard, and give to each the pain of discovered infe...

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...urke and Toryism eye askance. On thee too, for country’s sake, O Chevalier John Paul, be a word spent, or misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones... ...ined Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pulling grim-... ...ll he see the issue. Janus Bifrons, or Mr. Facing-both-ways, as vernacular Bunyan has it! They walk there, in the meanwhile, these two Januses, with o... ...orm quenching-regulations, “The ball is in Peter’s house!” “The ball is in John’s!” They divide their lodging and substance with each other; shout Viv... ...dian Wau-waus, one can understand: but this of Procureur Anaxagoras whilom John-Peter Chaumette? We will say only: Man is a born idol-worshipper, sigh... ...e, denounces Jacobins. KELLERMANN, at Valmy. KLOPSTOCK, naturalised. KNOX, John, and the Virgin. 561 Thomas Carlyle KORFF, Baroness de, in flight to ...