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Bunyan John. 1628--88, English preacher and writer, noted particularly for his allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"But yet," says Bunyan himself, "notwithstanding the meanness and inconsiderableness of my parents, it pleased God to put it into their hearts to put me to school, to learn me both to read and write. Bunyan mentions that above twenty thousand cartloads of wholesome instructions had been thrown in here without effect. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics. |
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