 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 Seiten
...kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good...master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss :... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 Seiten
...; 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 burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | 1840 - 448 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 Seiten
...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 eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | Francis Hare - 1840 - 40 Seiten
...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 life-blood of a masterspirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. No. VI. THE DIFFICULTIES AND DISCOURAGEMENTS... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 Seiten
...and down, may chance 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...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The quantity we have to learn, and know, and remember, encreases fearfully every... | |
 | 1841 - 640 Seiten
...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 burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | 1841 - 508 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...: 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 life. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 Seiten
...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...life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up, for purposes to a life beyond a life." THE RECORDER SYLVESTER. This successful lawyer had the hardest... | |
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... 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... 
