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The Works of Hannah More, With a Memoir and Notes
The Works of Hannah More With a Memoir and Notes Author:Hannah More General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Bo... more »oks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE PILGRIMS. AN ALLEGORY. Methought I was once upon a time travelling through a certain land which was very full of people ; but, what was rather odd, not one of all this multitude was at home; they were all bound to a far distant country. Though it was permitted by the Lord of the land that these pilgrims might associate together for their present mutual comfort and convenience; and each was not only allowed, but commanded, to do the others all the services he could upon their journey, yet it was decreed, that every individual traveller must enter the far country singly. There was a great gulf at the end of the journey, which every one must pass alone, and at his own risk, and the friendship of the whole united world could be of no use in shooting that gulf. The exact time when each was to pass was not known to any; this the Lord always kept a close secret, out of kindness, yet still they were as sure that the time must come, and that at no very great distance, as if they had been informed of the very moment. Now, as they knew they were always Though this and the following allegories will bring to the reader's mind the two books of Bunyan, his " Pilgrim's Progress" and " Holy War;" here is no direct imitation ; the objects of instruction are the same, but the manner is different. Dr. Johnson's tale of" Obidah," in the Rambler, was evidently written after reading the first part of Banyan's Pilgrim. -- Ed. liable to be called away at an hour's notice, one would have thought they would have been chiefly employed in packing up, and preparing,...« less