 ... 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
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbahned and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'T is true no age can... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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...eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a gcOcl ibook is the precious lifebjood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a... | |
 | James William Massie - Belgium - 1846 - 572 pages
...it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye :" if a good book " be the precious life-blood of a master- spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills prowess, yet obscrv'd Their dread commander ; np on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...creature, God's ¡mage ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, ш herwise to be a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | Religion - 1848 - 780 pages
...monument in every truly sanctified soul, and by the channel of this good book, pouring what Milton calls the " precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond lite," into the vital circulation of the militant church. There we pray and are persuaded... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 742 pages
...thrall.' Su'ch ends they may indeed subserve ; but we choose, with Milton, to regard a good book as ' the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.' A good book is always a valuable possession ; but when it has become venerable... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 792 pages
...monument in every truly sanctified soul, and by the channel of this good book, pouring what Milton calls the " precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," into the vital circulation of the militant church. There we pray and are persuaded... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroy*, a good book, kills ry, the avoidance of quarrels, the preservation of...drunkenness, and the service of God. We extract hie Three a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and... | |
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