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The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers. E-book. Formato PDF Couch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Again, the pilgrim is doing what the race has done constantly for many thousands of years; and to any one with a catholic mind (no matter what his creed) this ought to be a tremendous argument. Lastly, he is putting into drama and acting for him self that parable which — ao true is it — has in one way and another inspired the very best books in the world among them the Odyssey, the Eneid, the Divine Comedy, Don Quixote. All these are but different versions of the Pilgrim' s Progress: and if this little book dares to follow the parable, it is because a truth so universal covers the small equally with the great.

The Warwickshire Avon. E-book. Formato PDF Couch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Parliamentarians ranged their baggage. Yonder, on Mill Hill and Broad Moor, with just a hollow between, the two armies faced each other; the royalists with bean-stalks in their hats, their enemies with badges of white linen. To the left, Sulby hedges were lined with Ireton's dragoons. And the rest is an old story: Rupert, tardily returning from a headlong charge, finds no cause left to befriend, no foe to fight. While his men were pillaging, Cromwell has snatched the day. His Majesty is ?ying through Market Harborough towards Leicester, and thither along the dusty roads his beaten regiments trail after him, with the Ironsides at their heels, hewing hip and thigh.