 ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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...  History of English Literature - Page 430by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...man kills a reafonable creature, God's image; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelr, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a matter fpirit, imbalmed and trcafured-up on purpofe to- a life beyond life. Jt is true, no age... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - Literature - 1809 - 500 pages
...reafonable creature, God's image; but he who dcflroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the im. ige of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book (Sin fatorifdjíbibuftifdjee «ЮегГфеп be* Σ)id)ter6 (Sow lei) barf in fcer ©efdjid)ie bee... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...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,...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond a life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond a life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there...of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected Irulh, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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,...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embahued and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no aap... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man...book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...kills a I'MM kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book [picture], kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were,...man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book [picture] is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...kill's reason itself, — kills the image of God, as it were in the eve. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up, for purposes to a life beyond a Ijfe." VICISSITUDE OF FORTUNE. A characteristic trait of this sometimes... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 pages
...first set open to the public the doors of some such lofty hall, well stored with what Milton calls "the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ? " " If," as Pancirollus hath it, in his Treatise on the Lost Inventions of the... | |
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