 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, ш it were, in the eye. Many a man a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. paiuted with stars, and lighted. ffiyJit. Vanish,...glory shine, As she doth burn in rage ; come, leav np on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...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...master-spirit, embalmed 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 742 pages
...thrall.' Su'ch ends they may indeed subserve ; but we choose, with Milton, to regard a good book as ' the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.' A good book is always a valuable possession ; but when it has become venerable... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 792 pages
...monument in every truly sanctified soul, and by the channel of this good book, pouring what Milton calls the " precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," into the vital circulation of the militant church. There we pray and are persuaded... | |
 | Religion - 1848 - 780 pages
...monument in every truly sanctified soul, and by the channel of this good book, pouring what Milton calls the " precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond lite," into the vital circulation of the militant church. There we pray and are persuaded... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...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...master-spirit, embalmed 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... | |
 | William Colgrove Kenyon - English language - 1849 - 352 pages
...this fickle, this fleeting period, without bewailings, or envyings, or murmurings, or complainings. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good...book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit. Christianity is indeed peculiarly fitted to the more delicate sensibilities of refined mmds ; to the... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...but he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. ng and noon and evening, lip and heart Had groan'd, " Наго precioe« life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a Ufe beyond life.... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...Books ; and here let me give you an excellent sentence of John Milton's : he says, " Good books are the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." I then wrote you on the Bible, the Volume of Nature, the School, Hymns, Companions,... | |
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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... 
