 | Englishmen - 1837 - Liczba stron: 494
...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. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - Liczba stron: 366
...is the precious life-hlood of a master-spirit emhalmed and treasured 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... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 514
...a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," and it sadly damps his enthusiasm to behold them dealt with like a bale of cloth... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - Liczba stron: 330
...— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - Liczba stron: 360
...kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the...the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age... | |
 | 1840 - Liczba stron: 448
...kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the...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... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - Liczba stron: 514
...preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good...book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MlLToK. LONDON : EFFINGHAM WILSON, 18,... | |
 | Francis Hare - 1840 - Liczba stron: 40
...preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good...book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. No. VI. THE DIFFICULTIES AND DISCOURAGEMENTS... | |
 | Liczba stron: 632
...vial the purest essence and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man," he adds, "lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on jiurpose to a life beyond life." Indeed I know not... | |
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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 destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in... 
