 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...Two or three years previously, Milton had with matchless eloquence denounced the burning of books. "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,... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a roan as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown tip and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 8own up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book,... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...may chance to fpring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unlefs warinefs be ufed, as good almoft kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reafonable creature, God's image ; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the... | |
 | George Walter THORNBURY - 1851 - 188 pages
...town (one before whom I veil my face), said to ye :—" Unless wariness be used, as good almost kiU a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills...image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. . . . We should be wary, therefore, how we spill... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1851 - 188 pages
...town (one before whom I veil my face), said to ye : — " Unless wariness be used, as good almost kid 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, the image of God, as... | |
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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.... 
