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Bunyan

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Bun·yan  (bnyn), John 1628-1688.
English preacher and writer celebrated for his Pilgrim's Progress (two parts, 1678 and 1684), the allegorical tale of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
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Noun1.BunyanBunyan - English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
John Bunyan
2.BunyanBunyan - a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"
Paul Bunyan


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"But yet," says Bunyan himself, "notwithstanding the meanness and inconsiderableness of my parents, it pleased God to put it into their hearts to put me to school, to learn me both to read and write.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Bunyan mentions that above twenty thousand cartloads of wholesome instructions had been thrown in here without effect.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics.
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