 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...book, Mils 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...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured . up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 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...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Specch for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...but he who 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 masterspirit, MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS. 5. The miscellaneous writings of our eighty years must not be allowed to detain... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
...but he who 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, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no age can... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...but he who 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. — Milton. BOOKS,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...but he who kills 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. "Tis true no age can... | |
 | John Todd - Students - 1853 - 302 pages
...enlightened and fed than if it read ten books in the same time. " A good book," says John Milton, " is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The most remarkable men that have lived are usually those who have lived at some... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 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...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Specch for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...but -he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, killa 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 muster-spirit, MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS. 5. The miscellaneous writings of our eighty year$ must not... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...' but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. 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 for a life beyond Ufe.' " LILY WATSON. THE... | |
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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... 
