 | 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... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1851 - 188 pages
...my face), said to ye : — " Unless wariness be used, as good almost kid a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. . . . We should be wary, therefore, how we spill that second... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1851 - 570 pages
...himself with the weapons of the mighty Milton, does battle vigorously. " Who kills a man," he says, " kills a reasonable creature— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye." Alas! murderous critic, this is not all. Draco, we are told,... | |
 | John Robinson - 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1851 - 592 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 image ; but he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 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 : 'tis true no life... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...Estates and empires are nothing to it. "As good almost," says Milton, " 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." Fourthly. There is... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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." He appeals to antiquity... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...And yet, on the other hand, unless weariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...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 treasured... | |
 | Jane Gardam - 2000 - 296 pages
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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.... 
