 | Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...kills a reafonable creature,. GOD'S image ; but hee who deftroyes a good Booke, kills reafbn itfelf, kills the image of GOD, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth -, but a good Booke is the pretious lifeblood of a mafter fririt, imbalm'd and... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...kills a reafonable creature, GOD'S image ; but hee who deftroyes a good Booke, kills reafon itfelf, kills the image of GOD, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good Boqke is the pretious liftblood of a mafter fpirit, imbalm'd and treafur'd... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...thy vast parchment include all mankind." FRANCIS BARHAM. 100 OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man,...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... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless warincs$ » PW vol. i. 280. be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good...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... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...reasonable creature, God's image : but he wiiy destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills tne image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden in the eait/i; but a good book is tht prtcious Itfrbhod of a master spirit, iml^ti.itrl and... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good botrfc :-who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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... | |
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...man kills a reafonable creature, God's image; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelr, 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 matter fpirit, imbalmed and trcafured-up... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - Literature - 1809 - 500 pages
...reafonable creature, God's image; but he who dcflroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the im. ige of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book (Sin fatorifdjíbibuftifdjee «ЮегГфеп be* Σ)id)ter6... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's tec-lh; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring...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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...dragon's teeth; and. being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the olher hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill...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... | |
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I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's 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.... 
