...enlightened and fed than if it read ten books in the same time. " A good book," says John Milton, " is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The most remarkable men that have lived are usually those who have lived at some...

...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. MILTON'S Specch for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have been...

...first set open to the public the doors of some such lofty hall, well stored with what Milton calls " the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ? " " If," as Pancirollus hath it, in his Treatise on the Lost Inventions of the...

...as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect which bred them." " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." . 2. Our forefathers have, in truth, worked so hard for our benefit through a...

...are gathered now; the full harvest is reserved to the end of the world. "A good book," says Milton, "is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It may teach for ages : succeeding generations of a family may gather from it...

...'absolutely dead things, but are the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect which bred them, the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life' — or whether we can help in any other way, that God's name may be a praise in...

...being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And .... unless wariness be used, as good 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.'* The inestimable advantage of good books, printing has secured to us as an inalienable...

...should be few and well chosen. 330flfeS. — Milton. AS good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book. 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. tSflOfeg. _ Clarendon. TTE who loves not Books before he 'comes to thirty years...

...bred them. As good kill a man as kill a good book [Milton was writing in defense of a free press] ; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The thought which next presents itself in connection with our subject, relates...

...been printed on dingy brown paper and bound in shabby sheepskin. Still, Milton has well said that a book is ' the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ;' and why, then, should not such a treasure be enclosed in a worthy casket ? Dr...