 The paper, the printing, the plates, were all of the meanest description. In general, when the educated minority and the common people differ about the merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress is,...  The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac - Page 186by Eugene Field - 1896 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...Pilgrim's Progress is perhaps the only book about which, after the lapse of a JOHÎÎ BUNYAN. JOHN BUNYAN. hundred years, the educated minority has come over to the opinion of the common people.' The literary history of the Pilgrim's Progress is indeed remarkable. It attained quick popularity.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1854 - 696 pages
...merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The Pili/rim's Progress is perhaps the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. Banyan's subsequent career we need not follow here. We have said enough to direct attention to Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 pages
...the merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress is perhaps the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book are not to be numbered. It has... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1857 - 348 pages
...the merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress is perhaps the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book, are not to be numbered. It has... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 456 pages
...the merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress ia perhaps the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book are not to be numbered. It has... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 448 pages
...opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress is perhaps the only hook about which, after the lapse of a hundred years, the...has come over to the opinion of the common people. The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book are not to be numbered. It has... | |
 | 1859 - 592 pages
...about the merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress is, perhaps, the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. — Macavlay. THE PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE. MAY, 1859. THE FALL AND RECOVERY OF PETER. THE instability... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1859 - 594 pages
...about the merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority prevails. The Pilgrim's Progress is, perhaps, the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. — Macaulay. THE PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE, MAY, 1859. Srtichs. THE FALL AND RECOVERY OF PETER. THE instability... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 458 pages
...merit of a book, the opinion of the educated minority finally prevails. The " Pilgrim's Progress" is perhaps the only book about which, after the lapse...has come over to the opinion of the common people. The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book are not to be numbered. It has... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...of the educated minority finally prevails. The " Pilgrim's Progress " is perhaps the only hook ahout which, after the lapse of a hundred years, the educated minority has come over to the op in ion of the common people. The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book... | |
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