During his army years Bunyan witnessed the struggle between Presbyterians, who wanted to reform the Church of England, and radical sectaries. |
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He was an independent in religion, worshipping at the chapel Bunyan had served, a teetotaller, vegetarian, and a man of austere habits. |
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In castigating the Pharisee's superficial piety, Bunyan is again denouncing the formalists. |
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And I have remembered the author incorrectly, too, having erroneously attributed it to Paul Bunyan, thinking it came from Pilgrim's Progress. |
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Mr Bunyan said there was enormous scope to rationalise courier companies which deliver to people in rural communities. |
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Her 1985 anthology series offered dramatizations from the lives of fictional American folk heroes including Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, and Paul Bunyan. |
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Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy. |
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Bunyan spent nearly three years in the army, leaving in 1647 to return to Elstow and his trade as a tinker. |
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His father had remarried and had more children and Bunyan moved from Bunyan's End to a cottage in Elstow High Street. |
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One Sunday the vicar of Elstow preached a sermon against Sabbath breaking, and Bunyan took this sermon to heart. |
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Bunyan spent his 12 years' imprisonment in Bedford County Gaol, which stood on the corner of the High Street and Silver Street. |
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Thousands of nonconformists were released from prison, amongst them Bunyan and five of his fellow inmates of Bedford Gaol. |
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Bunyan was freed in May 1672 and immediately obtained a licence to preach under the declaration of indulgence. |
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Following his release from gaol in 1672 Bunyan probably did not return to his former occupation of tinker. |
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Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity. |
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In 1874, a bronze statue of John Bunyan, sculpted by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, was erected in Bedford. |
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Bunyan is best remembered for The Pilgrim's Progress, a book which gained immediate popularity. |
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John Bunyan had six children, five of whom are known to have married, of which four had children. |
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The Islanders won the Premier League Pairs Championship in 2007 when Chris Holder and Jason Bunyan beat Glasgow in the final. |
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His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. |
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The A6 crosses the River Great Ouse twice more, and is crossed by the John Bunyan Trail, near a GSJ for Clapham and Oakley. |
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In 1688, on his way to London, Bunyan made a detour to Reading, Berkshire, to try and resolve a quarrel between a father and son. |
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In 1941 Britten produced his first music drama, Paul Bunyan, an operetta, to a libretto by Auden. |
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The early operetta Paul Bunyan stands apart from Britten's later operatic works. |
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Bunyan writes about how the individual can prevail against the temptations of mind and body that threaten damnation. |
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In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. |
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John Bunyan was born in 1628 to Thomas and Margaret Bunyan at Bunyan's End in the parish of Elstow, Bedfordshire. |
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As a child Bunyan learned his father's trade of tinker and was given some rudimentary schooling. |
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Everyone's buying boring shoes from evil businessman Bunyan Soleless and time is running out for Elvis. |
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John Bunyan stands out beyond other religious authors of the period. |
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Authors who have been influenced by Bunyan include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott and George Bernard Shaw. |
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As Bunyan refused to agree to give up preaching, his period of imprisonment eventually extended to 12 years and brought great hardship to his family. |
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In the summer of 1644 Bunyan lost both his mother and his sister Margaret. |
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At the instigation of other members of the congregation Bunyan began to preach, both in the church and to groups of people in the surrounding countryside. |
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Orchestration will be by Fiona Brice who has provided arrangements for the likes of Roy Harper, Vashti Bunyan, Anna Calvi, Midlake, Placebo, as well as John himself. |
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During this time Bunyan, whilst on his travels as a tinker, happened to be in Bedford and pass a group of women who were talking about spiritual matters on their doorstep. |
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That autumn, shortly before or after his sixteenth birthday, Bunyan enlisted in the Parliamentary army when an edict demanded 225 recruits from the town of Bedford. |
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A passenger bus collided with a trade vehicle in Bunyan town of Kayseri province on Saturday morning, leaving three people dead on the scene, Xinhua reported. |
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