 ... 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
 | England - 1841 - 508 pages
...do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 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." Such precious life-blood is " The Treatise... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 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 in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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, 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... | |
 | English wit and humor, Pictorial - 1843 - 150 pages
...in the fulness of time, thou passest from sheets — into boards ! " A good book," saith Milton, " is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Therefore is a good book likely to grow old. But this, the last of our set of... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 548 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 lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...kills a man 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 lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life... | |
 | Christianity - 1841 - 500 pages
...preserve as in a viol the piirest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that hrcd them. 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." Such precious life-blood is " The Treatise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, "fis true no age ran R B \I i -^ of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole cations fare the worse. We should be wary, there!<«>,... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 pages
...« in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that l>rnl them. — Mauy a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the preciou* lifeblim.l of a master-spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."—... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...book. Is not a great historic abbey "an immortality rather than a life?'' Is not the cathedral, too, " the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life?" Are not these "restorers" and " improvers" of our public monuments the men who... | |
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