 | 1846 - 612 Seiten
...autobiography, does not specify his peculiar calling,* simply remarking that his father's house was of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land. His native cottage is still standing, though it has undergone such modifications and modernizations... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1823 - 546 Seiten
...magnified before the sons of men. "For my descent then, ft was, as is well known by many, of a low inconsiderable generation; my father's house being...and most despised of all the families in the land. Wherefore, I have not here as others, to boast of noble blood, or of any high-born state, according... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Southey - 1830 - 562 Seiten
...descent, to use his own words, " of a low inconsiderable generation, my father's house," he says, " being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land." It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...God towards me may be the more advanced and magnified before the sons of men. For my descent, then, Rox/ +`/ + H/ + inconsidable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1831 - 686 Seiten
...magnified before the sons of men. ' For my descent then, it was, as is well known by manj, of a low inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being...and most despised of all the families in the land. Wherefore, I have not here as others, to boast of noble blood, or of any high-born state, according-... | |
 | 18?? - 446 Seiten
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 | 1832 - 896 Seiten
...descent, to use his own words, ' of a low, inconsiderable, generation ; my father's house,' he says, ' being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.' It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked... | |
 | 1835 - 424 Seiten
...circumstances extremely unpropitious to alb moral and mental culture. He was, he tells us, " of a low, inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being...that is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land." * He learnt, indeed, " according to the rate of other poor men's children, but soon lost... | |
 | John Bunyan, Robert Southey - 1837 - 370 Seiten
...descent, to use his own words, " of a low inconsiderable generation, my father's house," he says, " being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land." It is stated in a history of Bedfordshire that he was bred to the business of a brazier, and worked... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1838 - 554 Seiten
...year 1628. His descent, to use his own words, was " of a low and inconsiderable generation," his " father's house being of that rank that is meanest...and most despised of all the families in the land." The craft to which he was born and bred, like his father before him, was that of a brazier or tinker... | |
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For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land. 
