 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of (¡od, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden...life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image...life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life : 'Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...disappointed benevolence, or the warmth of indignant virtue. Mackenzie. SEC. LX. THE VALUE OF A GOOD BOOK. 1 man, kills a reasonable creature : God's image ; but...of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a bur As good almost kill a man, as kill a book : who kills a 2 den to the earth ; but a good book is... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...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...life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." He appeals to antiquity : he shows that none of the worthy and... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...to posterity. Estates and empires are nothing to it. "As good almost," says Milton, " kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable...life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Fourthly. There is yet another method of raising Christianity... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...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...life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life : 'tis true no life can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...up armed men. " And yet, on the other hand, unless weariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills a reasonable...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 treasured... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...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...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. [Classical Tripos, 1834.] 20. IN these extremities, the perverse obstinacy of the Athenians was very... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be need, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable...book is the precious lifeblood of a masterspirit, MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS. 5. The miscellaneous writings of our eighty years must not be allowed to detain... | |
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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.... 
