 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 pagina’s
...teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond... | |
 | 1841 - 508 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pagina’s
...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 burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbahned and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pagina’s
...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 burden to the earth ; but a gcOcl ibook is the precious lifebjood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...creature, God's ¡mage ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, ш herwise to be book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life... | |
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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... 
