 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...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...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — Milton's Speech... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...knowledge. ERASTUS C. BENEDICT. 81. A GOOD BOOK. As good almost kill a man as kill a book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature : God's image ; but he...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... | |
 | Serge Soupel - Age - 1995 - 252 pages
...a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he...masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life1. Parler des âges de la vie selon le poète William Blake nous place immédiatement... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...them. . . . 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...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... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - Books and reading - 1996 - 394 pages
...destruction signal a repudiation of reason. As John Milton wrote in Areopagitica, "who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(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 creature, God's image; but he who...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... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - Religion - 2009 - 502 pages
...as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. John Milton4 197 Can we continue to speak, in the wake of deconstruction, of a morality of literary... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...progeny they are. 7458 Areopagitica 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...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. 7459 Areopagitica It was from out the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil... | |
 | David E. W. Fenner - Education - 1999 - 380 pages
...kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but hee who destroycs a good Book, kills reason it selfe, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to 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... | |
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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.... 
