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" Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. "
The daughter at school - Page 118
by John Todd - 1853
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New-England's Memorial

Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...in the east and the west, in two countries separated by a mighty ocean." — Life, 75. " A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." — Milton. Before proceeding to give Mr. Robinson's views in detail, we feel...
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss;...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." EMERSON'S ESSAYS.* THE American is proud of any man, whose genius tends to give...
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Memoir of Old Humphrey: With Gleanings from His Portfolio, in Prose and Verse

Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...fruits are gathered now ; the full harvest is reserved to the end of the world. " A good book," says Milton, " is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It may teach for ages : succeeding generations of a family may gather from it...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond a life. 'Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss;...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth: but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond a life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 582 pages
...first set open to the public the doors of some such lofty hall, well stored with what Milton calls "the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ? " " If," as Pancirollus hath it, in his Treatise on the Lost Inventions of the...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...to define in what respects. Milton says, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." And to whom does this apply with such force of truth as to those who have written...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth: but a good book is the 73 PW i. 289. precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond a life. 'Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ;...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 99

English essays - 1829 - 742 pages
...from it, he would probably have dilated on the subject with somewhat less enthusiasm,) " a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.'' Whoever has studied Franklin in his political and philosophical works, will,...
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