 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : ase, The indifferent judge between the high and low....1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true no age can... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...Who kills a man, 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,...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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 pages
...kill a man as kill a good book, because who kills 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." Could the people, instead of merely receiving instruction from the desk and the platform, enter the... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, 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 a man lives a burden to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of (¡od, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden... | |
 | 1850 - 662 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, 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 a man lives a burden to... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...man, kills a reafonable creature, God's image ; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the image 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 mafter fpirit, embalmed and... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...disappointed benevolence, or the warmth of indignant virtue. Mackenzie. SEC. LX. THE VALUE OF A GOOD BOOK. 1 man, kills a reasonable creature : God's image ; but...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... | |
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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.... 
