 | 1831 - 652 pages
...greater favourite than Jack the Giant-Killcr. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...greater favorite than Jack the Giant-Killer. Every reader knows the straight and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius—that things which are not should be as though they were,...declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are riot perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...greater favorite than " Jack the Giant-Killer." Every reader knows the strait and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...declivity, no resting-place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius — that things which VOL. I.— 17 t the lenity n» ascent, no declivity, no resting-place, no turni stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...favourite than ' Jack the Giant Killer.' Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket-gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the city... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - Mesmerism - 1849 - 334 pages
...is one of the most remarkable and successful efforts of the kind ever made. "This," says Macaulay, "is the highest miracle of genius — that things...another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. * * * All the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims — giants... | |
 | Theology - 1859 - 606 pages
...Jack the Giant Killer. Every reader Tmows the straight and narrow path, as well as he knows a road he has gone backward and forward a hundred times....declivity, no resting-place, no turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The •wicket-gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the... | |
 | John Bunyan - Spiritual directors - 1850 - 500 pages
...greater favorite than Jack the Giant-killer. Every reader knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...should become the personal recollections of another. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1850 - 500 pages
...greater favorite than Jack the Giant-killer. Every reader knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and...should become the personal recollections of another. Cowper said, forty or fifty years ago, that he dared not name John Bunyan in his verse, for fear of... | |
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Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations... 
