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Title: Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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iquated and devoid of originality, but the strikingbeauty of many of the thoughts and phrases in which he clothesthem has lent them a permanent fascination. There is a curiousmingling of old and new in Brownes views. His is mainly a religionbased upon faith, and where reason is adduced, it is usually in theform of scholastic sophistries. The language of the schools echoes 2i8 SIR THOMAS BROWNE constantly through his writings; his beUef in ghosts, in devils, andin witchcraft was profound, and he even gave evidence in a casewhich led to the burning of two witches in 1664. Yet in spite ofthese conspicuous mediaevalisms, he at times makes startlingexcursions outside the domains of contemporarj theology. Thushe suggests that the first chapters of Genesis are an allegory, anddiscredits a material heaven. As he finely says, the soul of manmay be in heaven anywhere, even in the limits of his own properbody. There is, in fact, a vein of high-minded scepticism runningamid his sublime mysticism.
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JOHN BUNYANFrom the portrait by T. Sadler in the National Portrait Gallery Facr p. 218 JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) was born at Elstow in Bedfordshire, son of Thomas Bunyan andMargaret Bentley. The father came of an old but impoverishedyeoman family and exercised the trade of tinker. It is only from Bunyans own works that we can gather anyaccount of his early life, and it seems that, as in the case of mostsaintly souls who have experienced sudden and enduring conversions,much of this account should be received with caution. Such peopleare but too prone to exaggerate their own early wickedness, andBunyan was no exception to the rule. But it is also quite plain thatthe humble tinker (for John followed his fathers handicraft) made animpression upon his contemporaries as a preacher almost as great asthat which he has made upon posterity as a writer. He seems tohave had little schooling, and, in the strict sense of the word, nolearning at all. He served in the Civil War when he was sixteen,thou

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