 | 1831 - 652 pages
...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. We...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pages
...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. We...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...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. We...contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet THE PL AG UH IN 1665. (An Extract from Calamy's Life of Baxter, Abridgement, p. 583. ) "In the time... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...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. We...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...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. We...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...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. We...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he* meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of nts, but ready to encounter principalities and powers...in the cause of justice, mercy,, and toleration. hag said more exactly what he meant to •ay. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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. We...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We have observed several pages which do not contain...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. We nave observed several pages which do not contain a single...syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for... | |
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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. There is not an expression, if we except... 
