 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but -he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, killa the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...kills a reasonable creature—God's image, but he who destroys a good book, destroys 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.—John Milton. 457.... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...kills a reasonable creature—God^ image, but he who destroys a good book, destroys 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.—John Milton. 457.... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 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. It is true, no age... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 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.'* The inestimable advantage... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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 master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — Milton's Speech... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 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...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... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image; but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life... | |
| |
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... 
