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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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The North British review

1850 - 654 pages
...Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were,...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...
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The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 pages
...kill a man as kill a good book, because who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye." Could the people, instead of merely receiving instruction from the desk and the platform, enter the...
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The North British Review, Volume 13

1850 - 662 pages
...armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature...— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature...— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a morning visions Of beauteous souls! the future's pledge and band ' Who in life's battle destroys reason itself, kills the image of (¡od, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden...
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The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...may chance to fpring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unlefs warinefs be ufed, as good almoft kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reafonable creature, God's image ; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 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, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...
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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815: Search for a Reasonable World

Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pages
...be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good...Image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."18 Milton received his position as secretary as much for his writing ability as for his religious...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...charge of such a man? — Everybody in the Empire will help to do so. Mencius, I (4th century BCE) 9 Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) 10 Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep...
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Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 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 book. Who kills a man, Mils a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills...
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