 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...  The Spectator: A Digest-index - Page viiiby William Wheeler - 1892 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...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; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth; for the want of which... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - Freedom of the press - 1906 - 420 pages
...pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasured but on purpose to a Life beyond Life. 'T is true, no age can restore a Life, whereof perhaps there...is no great losse ; and revolutions of ages doe not often recover the losse of a rejected^ Truth, for want of which whole Nations fare the worse. \We should... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed 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 ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Laozi - Philosophy - 1973 - 180 pages
...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 ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...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. Tis true, no age...restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spitit, embalmed -5 and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age...restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Alan Haworth - Freedom of speech - 1998 - 282 pages
...the Earth; but a good ftooke is the pretious lifeblood of a master spirit. imbatm'd and tresur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof there is no great losse; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected truth,... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 360 pages
...the Earth: but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true, no age...restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Blair Hoxby - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 332 pages
...good men is but knowledge in the making" (CPW 2:554)True and original ideas are so hard to come by — "revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected truth, for the want of which Whftl? NatiVflS faF? th? worse" ÍCP H7 2:491) — that their production and circulation must be allowed... | |
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