I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and 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... Brief for Plaintiff: Bacon Vs. Shakespeare - Página 79por Edwin Reed - 1891 - 112 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 páginas
...— 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...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 :... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, * Laws and orders relating... | |
 | 1841 - 640 páginas
...see — But breathe farewell for ever ! THOS. H. GLAMORGAN. OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man,...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Landlord and Tenant: A Comprehensive and Popular View of the Laws of Landlord,... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 páginas
...teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " 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." The quantity we have to learn, and know, and remember, encreases fearfully every... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 páginas
...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 masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up, for purposes to a life beyond a life." THE RECORDER SYLVESTER. This successful lawyer had the hardest... | |
 | 1843 - 150 páginas
...in the fulness of time, thou passest from sheets — into boards ! " A good book," saith Milton, " is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Therefore is a good book likely to grow old. But this, the last of our set of... | |
 | 1887 - 890 páginas
...book. Is not a great historic abbey "an immortality rather than a life?'' Is not the cathedral, too, " the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life?" Are not these "restorers" and " improvers" of our public monuments the men who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...spring up armed men. And yet, on the other band, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man u from Afric shore, When Charleniain with all his peerage...mortal prowess, yet obscrv'd Their dread commander ; np on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...creature, God's ¡mage ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, ш herwise to be a life beyond life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
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