 | 1896 - 858 Seiten
...active as that soul was whose progeny they are. 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 for a life beyond Ufe.' " LILY WATSON. THE HANDWRITING OF FAMOUS DIVINES. BISHOP BUTLER. BORN 1692... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 Seiten
...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 beyond life.—John Milton. 457. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
 | 1855 - 440 Seiten
...Giles's. — Athenäum. шй IMMORTALITY OF AUTHORS. — John Milton somewhere says, " A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." And James Montgomery carries out the same idea in his reflections on the writings... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 Seiten
...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 beyond life.—John Milton. 457. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
 | 1854 - 500 Seiten
...contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." How grand a privilege must it be, then, to have — " The sayings of the wise... | |
 | 1855 - 616 Seiten
...to be the most important part of our literature. That above all other books a biography contains " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Many a time have we felt refreshed and invigorated by the lives of men who, though... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 Seiten
...not often recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how spill that treasured life of man preserved and stored up in books, since... | |
 | Society of friends - 1856 - 236 Seiten
...neither time nor inclination for any others. " A good book," says Milton, in characteristic language, " is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." And when all may enjoy the privilege of communion with such spirits ; an intellectual... | |
 | 1856 - 790 Seiten
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. A Good Book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." In every number of this cheap little magazine we try to give as much good food... | |
 | 1856 - 518 Seiten
...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 beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ;... | |
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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 beyond life. 
