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 burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... Life and Times of John Milton - Strona 130autor: William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - Liczba stron: 307Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Hugh James Rose - 1829 - Liczba stron: 234
...deceitful, and his understanding unable, without assistance, to discern truth; which, speaking " ' Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.' Milton, Areopagitica, Works, Vol. ip 15. (ed. Birch.) See Notes and Illustrations to chapter I. No.... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - Liczba stron: 358
...precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps...the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We • ho'iu be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - Liczba stron: 358
...precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a re. jected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore,... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - Liczba stron: 670
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how... | |
| 1834 - Liczba stron: 532
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. "Tis true no age can restore a life whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ; the revolutions of ages do not often recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - Liczba stron: 312
...life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss : and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how we spill the seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books."... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - Liczba stron: 380
...the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors Methinks I see in my mind a noble... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - Liczba stron: 366
...up on purpose to a life heyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there it no great loss : and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth , for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should he wary how... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - Liczba stron: 494
...precious life-blood of a master 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 nu great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want... | |
| 1839 - Liczba stron: 650
...and to the Church. No truth is to be discarded because it has long stood connected with error, for, " revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of...the want of which whole nations fare the worse."* * Milton's " Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing." STATISTICAL TABLE, Containing a List of... | |
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