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They were written in good English modified by a few peculiar terms used in senses unsuspected by dictionary-makers; in a beautiful hand, with the t's uncrossed, but crowned with the side-stroke, so as to avoid the appearance of the symbol of Christianity, and with the dates expressed according to the Hebrew Calendar, for Karlkammer refused to recognize the chronology of the Christian.
The greater work is to reveal God. Every true religious enthusiast is a prophet. Language, be it remember'd, is not an abstract construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
'No, no, my Troubadour continued, 'to write poetry, you must get the language of a rural people a language talked among fields, and trees, and by rivers and mountains a language never minced or disfigured by academies and dictionary-makers, and journalists; you must have a language like that which your own Burns, whom I read of in Chateaubriand, used; or like the brave, old, mellow tongue unchanged for centuries stuffed with the strangest, quaintest, richest, raciest idioms and odd solemn words, full of shifting meanings and associations, at once pathetic and familiar, homely and graceful the language which I write in, and which has never yet been defiled by calculating men of science or jack-a-dandy litterateurs." The above sentences may be taken as a specimen of the ideas with which Jasmin seemed to be actually overflowing from every pore in his body so rapid, vehement, and loud was his enunciation of them.
I know likewise, that writers of travels, like dictionary-makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those who come last, and therefore lie uppermost. This indeed would be too great a mortification, if I wrote for fame: but as my sole intention was the public good, I cannot be altogether disappointed.
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