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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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 212
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 5

Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...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...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...
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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...useless against bad books, since it does not prevent their circulation, the author proceeds : — " As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who...but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself ...... A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 7

1836 - 694 pages
...bursts forth with one of those eloquent axioms which are the legacies of great men to all ages : " Whoso kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image...kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it wore, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifi-blood...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 3

Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. 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 to a life beyond life." The publication of...
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Corrected Proofs

Horatio Hastings Weld - 1836 - 268 pages
...threescore, was just ready to be married for the first time? BOOKS. " WHO kUls a man," says Milton, " kills a reasonable creature — God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself." Think of that, confectioners, who bake pastry under stray leaves of Milton, and envelope "kisses,"...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them .. .Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man, as kill a good...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. MILTON. MY way must...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

1837 - 1068 pages
...immortal mind when under the highest consciousness of freedom at the attempt made to fetter its powers. As good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who...earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 3

Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almo.t kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills...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...
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Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library ...

New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association, Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York - 1837 - 530 pages
...extraction <Л that living intellect that bred them. As good almost kill a man, as kill a good bonk : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the ima^-.1 ut God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good oook is...
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Visits and Sketches, at Home and Abroad

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 pages
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature —...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 of a master-spirit...
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