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But in no instance can we detect the faintest symptom of levity in the Hebrew penmen; their style, like their subject, is uniformly exalted, chaste, and severe; they wrote to men concerning the things of God, in a manner suitable to such a momentous communication; and they never ceased to remember that, in all their records, whether historical or prophetic, they were employed in propagating those glad tidings by which all the families of the earth were to be blessed.
So it is, and perhaps so it should be, whether it pleases the conceit of penmen or not. Life is meant to be active; and books, though they give the action to future generations, administer but to the holiday of the present.
Lower down, where the road that stretches like a white ribbon over the bosom of the moor crosses the river, there is an inn. I will not name it: writers of poems and guide-books worthier penmen all have done that. Besides, quite enough people go there as it is.
Bunyan, 'have you the very self-same original copies that were written by the penmen of the Scriptures, prophets and apostles? 'No, said the scholar, 'but we have the true copies of these originals. 'How do you know that? said Mr. Bunyan. 'How? said the scholar. 'Why, we believe what we have is a true copy of the original. 'Then, said Mr.
Buntline immediately obtained a supply of pens, ink and paper, and then engaged all the hotel clerks as penmen. In less than an hour after he had rented the theater, he was dashing off page after page of his proposed drama the work being done in his room at the hotel.
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