| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...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 eye. Many...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... | |
| Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...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 eye. Many...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... | |
| 1840 - 448 pages
...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 eye. Many...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... | |
| Francis Hare - 1840 - 40 pages
...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... | |
| 1840 - 684 pages
...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 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... | |
| 632 pages
...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... | |
| 1841 - 640 pages
...man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but be who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many...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." Elements of Physiology,... | |
| lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to 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." The quantity we have... | |
| 1841 - 508 pages
...do 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 lifeblood of a master-spirit imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such precious life-blood... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1843 - 720 pages
...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 eye. Many...burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lite-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true... | |
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