 | Sketch - 1843 - 312 Seiten
...I have learned since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." This vivid description will not, however, apply to the present day, when Popery is again displaying... | |
 | 1843 - 594 Seiten
...and also of the many shrewd knocks that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by him, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.' ' How strangely times alter!' said Mr Borrow,... | |
 | John Dowling - 1843 - 156 Seiten
..."among the blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of pilgrims that had gone this way formerly," yet, " by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, he has grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in the cave's... | |
 | 1843 - 596 Seiten
...Christian, who derides the ' infirm giant, alive, yet by reason of ' age, and also of the many shrewd knocks that he met with in ' his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff, that he can now ' do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims ' as they go by... | |
 | 1844 - 472 Seiten
...left almost like giant Pope in Pilgrims Progress, feeble and broken, " grown so crazy and stiff in the joints, that he can now do little more than sit in...biting his nails because he cannot come at them." The Irish Church trembles to its foundation, and half of England rebels against the payment of tithes... | |
 | 1844 - 462 Seiten
...in his Pilgrim's Progress, " Gian»Pope is grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can do now little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning...biting his nails because he cannot come at them," It is most truethat "Antichrist was labouring with immitigable rancour to eradicate God's truth from... | |
 | 1845 - 780 Seiten
...also of the many shrewd knocks that he had met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by him, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.' " — (Edinburgh Review, p. 116.) We can... | |
 | John Dowling - 1845 - 698 Seiten
...among the blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of pilgrims that nad gone this way formerly," yet, " by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, he has grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1846 - 380 Seiten
...; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the manyshrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown...by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.1 So I saw that Christian went on his way ; yet, at the sight of the old man that sat at the mouth... | |
 | 1744 - 596 Seiten
...sore that God would bless him. THE INQUISITION. " THOUGH Pope be yet alive," says Bunyan's Pilgrim, " he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes grown so crazy, and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Cave's... | |
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... grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them. 
