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John Bunyan. (1628–1688) 2912 The palace Beautiful. Pilgrim’s Progress. Part i. 2913 They came to the Delectable Mountains. Pilgrim’s Progress. Part i. 2914 Some things are of that nature as to make The Author’s Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. 2915 He that is down needs fear no fall. 1 Pilgrim’s Progress. Part ii. Sir William Temple. (1628–1699) 2916 Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. Ancient and Modern Learning. 2917 No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672. Memoirs. Vol. ii. p. 255. 2918 When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. Miscellanea. Part ii. Of Poetry. John Tillotson. (1630–1694) 2919 If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. 2 William Stoughton. (1631–1701) 2920 God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. 3 Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669.
