 | Old Humphrey - Methodists - 1855 - 270 pages
...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...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It may teach for ages : succeeding generations of a family may gather from it knowledge and find in it... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...he who destroys a good book, destroys 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.—John Milton. 457.... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...he who destroys a good book, destroys 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.—John Milton. 457.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect which bred them." " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." . 2. Our forefathers have, in truth, worked so hard for our benefit through a... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...should be few and well chosen. 330flfeS. — Milton. AS good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good...Master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a life beyond life. tSflOfeg. _ Clarendon. TTE who loves not Books before he 'comes to thirty years... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...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...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.'* The inestimable advantage of good books, printing has secured to us as an inalienable... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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 master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — Milton's Speech... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...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. It is true, no age... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 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." It is... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 308 pages
...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...not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for want of which whole nations fare worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against... | |
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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... 
