 | 1845 - 688 páginas
...we shall now address ourselves to the best of our ability. 0 Milton nobly says, " A good book is the life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It is, indeed, a treasury of the inextinguishable light and the inexpugnible strength... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 páginas
...intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye :" if a good book " be the precious life-blood of a master- spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | 1846 - 838 páginas
...Printing is writing rapidly by blocks : hail to it ! And why hail? Because it is the great arrester. A book is "the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up." ' Let each remember that he can be immortal even by giving or saving a thought. He may not "read his... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 páginas
...the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost, kill a man as kill a good book : who kill* a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but...life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life. It is trtie, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...And yet, on the other band, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man u kill a good book : When Charleniain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia....mortal prowess, yet obscrv'd Their dread commander ; of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured np on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true no age can... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's ¡mage ; ; the star of reason and learning, and all other such like helps, beginneth n ш it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a. burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1849 - 818 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Colgrove Kenyon - 1849 - 352 páginas
...this fickle, this fleeting period, without bewailings, or envyings, or murmurings, or complainings. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit. Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more delicate sensibilities of... | |
 | 1849 - 854 páginas
...neither time nor inclination for any others. "A good book," says Milton, in characteristic language, " is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." And when all may enjoy the privilege of communion with such spirits ; an intellectual... | |
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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.... 
