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During his army years Bunyan witnessed the struggle between Presbyterians, who wanted to reform the Church of England, and radical sectaries.
He was an independent in religion, worshipping at the chapel Bunyan had served, a teetotaller, vegetarian, and a man of austere habits.
In castigating the Pharisee's superficial piety, Bunyan is again denouncing the formalists.
And I have remembered the author incorrectly, too, having erroneously attributed it to Paul Bunyan, thinking it came from Pilgrim's Progress.
Mr Bunyan said there was enormous scope to rationalise courier companies which deliver to people in rural communities.
Her 1985 anthology series offered dramatizations from the lives of fictional American folk heroes including Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, and Paul Bunyan.
Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy.
Bunyan spent nearly three years in the army, leaving in 1647 to return to Elstow and his trade as a tinker.
His father had remarried and had more children and Bunyan moved from Bunyan's End to a cottage in Elstow High Street.
One Sunday the vicar of Elstow preached a sermon against Sabbath breaking, and Bunyan took this sermon to heart.
Bunyan spent his 12 years' imprisonment in Bedford County Gaol, which stood on the corner of the High Street and Silver Street.
Thousands of nonconformists were released from prison, amongst them Bunyan and five of his fellow inmates of Bedford Gaol.
Bunyan was freed in May 1672 and immediately obtained a licence to preach under the declaration of indulgence.
Following his release from gaol in 1672 Bunyan probably did not return to his former occupation of tinker.
Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.
In 1874, a bronze statue of John Bunyan, sculpted by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, was erected in Bedford.
Bunyan is best remembered for The Pilgrim's Progress, a book which gained immediate popularity.
John Bunyan had six children, five of whom are known to have married, of which four had children.
The Islanders won the Premier League Pairs Championship in 2007 when Chris Holder and Jason Bunyan beat Glasgow in the final.
His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson.
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Circumstances, I should say, qualified Bunyan perfectly well for the work which he had to do.
The women in Bedford, to whom Bunyan had opened his mind, had been naturally interested in him.
You may say that Robespierre was morbid and unbalanced, and you may say the same of Bunyan.
To justify Bunyan he must come down and die again, and that was not to be thought of.
It was believed at that moment by Oliver Cromwell as completely as by Bunyan himself.
A rude, but characteristical wood-cut portrait of Bunyan is indented in the margin of this title-page.
The inventive faculty has its dangers, and Bunyan was eminently gifted in that way.
He enquired, when Bunyan was brought in, how many arms had been found at the meeting.
It stands for the quality and service you have the right to expect from Paul Bunyan.
By the mere chronology of his works, Bunyan belongs in our next period, but in his case mere chronology must be disregarded.
Bunyan was generally charitable in his judgment upon others.
He saw John Bunyan running loose, and put him in the calaboose.
A few months before Bunyan had suffered from the sweating sickness.
He might as well say that John Bunyan was deficient in ethical instincts.
In all of these ways Paul Bunyan is the idealization of the lumberjack.
Paul Bunyan has become a part of the every day life of the loggers.
Bunyan rather looked on him as a false friend trying to entangle him.
Bunyan notes this disposition in his own history of Mr. badman.
Paul Bunyan had his setbacks the same as every logger only his were worse.
In circumstances equally inspiring Bunyan entertained that hussy.
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