| 1831 - 652 pages
...Giant-Killcr. 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...we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction, — the long line of road,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...Giant-Killer. 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...we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the long line of road, as... | |
| 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,...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 City... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Giant-Killer." Every reader knows the strait and narrow path, as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This...we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the long line of road, as... | |
| 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
...Giant Killer.' 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...turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The wicket-gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the city of Destruction, the long line... | |
| 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. This...turnstile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted. The •wicket-gate, and the desolate swamp which separates it from the City of Destruction ; the iron cage... | |
| John Bunyan - Spiritual directors - 1850 - 500 pages
...Giant-killer. Every reader knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This...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
...Giant-killer. Every reader knows the strait and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This...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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