...of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. BANCROFT. I800GEORGE BANCROFT was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in I800. He recently returned from...

...fp. 8vo). of which Lord Macaulay remarks: " There is no book in oar literature on which we could 00 ity. 2. There is humiliias qucedam incitio." not,...highly esteems and honours the English troops than I d . . . We arc not afraid to say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter...

...yet always admirable style. "There is no book in our literature," says Macaulay, "on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." How came Bunyan to produce this masterpiece ? At school he learned only to read and write, both of...

...perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the unpolluted English language, no book which shows so...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. Eunyan. Dr. Johnaon ; the life of Literary Men in Johnson's youth. At the time when Johnson commenced...

...plain working men — was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." Even the assertion that " the vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people " is inconsiderate...

...would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language " as the Pilgrim's Progress ; " no book which shows so well how rich that language...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there...

...all Christian countries, than any other religious book except the Bible. Macaulay says of it, "There is no book in our literature on which we could so...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." He died in London in 1688. 1. Now, there was, not far from the place where they lay, a castle, called...

...Jerusalem. Of this work, Lord Macaulay says : — " There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed " ; and, " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century,...

...abstract the interest of the concrete." And again : " There is no work in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...it has been improved by all that it has borrowed." l We must pass by with a word Bunyan's other works. " Grace Abounding," which is the pathetic story...

...Jerusalem. Of this work, Lord Macaulay says: — "There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English...little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed " ; and, " Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century,...