 And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the...  The Ceylon magazine - Page 2Full view - About this book
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...destroys a good Book, kills reason itself, 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...lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. MY way must be straight on. True with the tongue, False with... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - English literature - 1837 - 316 pages
...book, kills reason itself, kills 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 master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Speoch for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, 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 lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life,... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." But Coleridge was a poet as well as a philosopher ; and therefore even... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, 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...lifeblood of a master spirit, 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... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, 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...life-blood of a master spirit, 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... | |
 | Francis Hare - Bible - 1840 - 40 pages
...in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. No. VI. THE... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, 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 life. It is true, no age... | |
 | England - 1841 - 508 pages
...as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such precious life-blood... | |
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