Category Archives: Reading & Writing

Writing for Posterity: John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

Isaiah 8:1       Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen.  GEORGE OFFOR (1787-1864): The most important events have arisen out of circumstances very different to what reason could have expected…The Redeemer of the world … Continue reading

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Books

Ecclesiastes 12:12        Of making many books there is no end.   WILLIAM S. PLUMER (1802-1880): Books. Some are like shops where only remnants are sold. Nothing is complete. You may find what you need, but there is seldom enough of … Continue reading

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Some Directions for Writers

Psalm 45:1        My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.   JOHN NEWTON (1725-1807): A well-known observation of Lord Bacon is much to my present purpose. It is to this effect: “That reading makes a full man, writing an … Continue reading

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