 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...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 eye. Many...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." He appeals to antiquity... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...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 eye. Many...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 life... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...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 eye. Many...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." Fourthly. There is... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...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 eye. Many...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,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, (iod's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many...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... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...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 eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a masterspirit, MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS. 5. The miscellaneous writings of our eighty years must not... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 526 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. 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." The publication of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...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 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... | |
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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 the... 
