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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.... "
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... - Page 399
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The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1

Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 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...reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were ia the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of...
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The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age

Thomas L. Pangle - Political Science - 1993 - 244 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 masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. . . . Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely...
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The Culture of Violence: Essays on Tragedy and History

Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 276 pages
...even life itself: 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...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 can...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Air-Conditioned Hightmare, "With Edgar Várese in the Gobi Desert" (1 945). 1« As good almost kill a man as ] /\ g ϾLN iV4# ѹ Z J GII + f vk J 7g m\ t' JOHN MILTON (1608-74). English poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for ihe Liberty of Unlicensed Printing...
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A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law

Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - Law - 1994 - 900 pages
...discourage independent thought through licensing was to deprive society of Reason itself. He wrote, who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose...
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Les âges de la vie en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle: actes de colloques ...

Serge Soupel - Age - 1995 - 252 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life1. Parler des âges de la vie selon le poète William Blake nous...
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The Best Test Preparation for the Advanced Placement Examination English ...

Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable cteature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills...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...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...of that living intellect that bred them. . . . unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable...the earth, but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. [297-8] Great literature...
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Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books

Frederick Kiefer - Books and reading - 1996 - 394 pages
...those exercises in destruction signal a repudiation of reason. As John Milton wrote in Areopagitica, "who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye." 31 The age of the printing press, which had seemed to promise a period of enlightenment, became an...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Galton and Alan Simpson (1956-1963). Episode broadcast Feb. 26, 1960. 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. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing...
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