Word: pilgrimate
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...alarmed, readers of the Magenta, at the ominous title of this contribution. I take it for granted that you know that the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the hospitable shore of Plymouth in the year 1620, and were received by the kindly attentions of Samoset and his warriors. In consequence of this little historical episode, a small stone called Plymouth Rock has obtained some celebrity, and is the foundation on which the Puritanical inhabitants of this little town build their hopes of prosperity in this world and salvation in that which is to come. I shall spare you all this...
...Pilgrim's Progress" for the thing I mean...
...rush through book after book - novels, sermons, poems, biographies, travels, plays, histories - only that they may feel, when they have finished, that they have read them and are therefore "well-read" men. How different from people in the last century, who perused their Clarissa Harlowe, Rape of the Lock, Pilgrim's Progress, and Shakespeare till they almost knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand and one others, and try to get some idea...