 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...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 destroys...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. It is true, no age... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...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 destroys...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. It is true no age can... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...100 OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." What have the Whigs done ? London: Painter. 1841. THIS is a very able and eloquent... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - Europe - 1841 - 326 pages
...teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The quantity we have to learn, and know, and remember, encreases fearfully every... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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 destroys...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 pages
...remarked what Horace alluded to, in his \ if urn rendentem, tints et adores ! " He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, — God's image: but he who...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 masterspirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 548 pages
...attempt made to fetter its powers. 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...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book [picture] kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it...man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book [picture] is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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 destroys...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. 'T is true no age can... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...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 destroys...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbahned and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age... | |
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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.... 
