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.... English Prose (1137-1890) - Strona 114pod redakcją - 1909 - Liczba stron: 544Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - Liczba stron: 580
...chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost Ml a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a...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... | |
| John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - Liczba stron: 578
...that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to...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... | |
| 1861 - Liczba stron: 492
...Minister's Wooing." 116 The Use of Books. [Jan., ARTICLE XI.— THE USE OF BOOKS. "Unless wariness bo used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book....itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." THE readers of the "QUARTERLY" will readily recall an Article which appeared in one of the earlier... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - Liczba stron: 396
...justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of, life in them to be as active as that soul was...spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and... | |
| Joseph Johnson - 1862 - Liczba stron: 360
...justice upon them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...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." After the execution... | |
| 1862 - Liczba stron: 448
...as it would Ъе to estimate its worth by its weight. Milton has left us a suggestive admonition : "As good almost kill a man, as kill a good book ;...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye." If the destruction of a single good book involves such a loss, what should be thought of our criminality,... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - Liczba stron: 414
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and aa vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth...reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were ia the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - Liczba stron: 846
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth i and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man live* a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbahned... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - Liczba stron: 554
...justice on them as malefactors, — for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...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... | |
| Orator - 1864 - Liczba stron: 186
...justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...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... | |
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