 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - English newspapers - 1850 - 326 pages
...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...burden to 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. It is true,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of (¡od, of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1850 - 232 pages
...a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but 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 upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many...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... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...kills a reafonable creature, Gods Image ; but hee who deftroyes a good Booke, kills reafon it felfe, 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 mafter fpirit, imbalm'd and treafur'd up on purpofe to a life... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...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 bur As good almost kill a man, as kill a book : who kills a 2 den to the earth ; but a good book is... | |
 | John Robinson - Congregational churches - 1851 - 576 pages
...CONGBEQATIONAL MINISTEB, PITTSFIELD, AND PRESIDENT OF BOUDOIN COLLEGE, IN MAINE. " MANY a man," says Milton, " lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." As Mr. Eobinson did... | |
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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 destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the... 
