...beautiful, glowing thought is frozen or starved. I read this last night in Milton's ' Areopagitica,' — 'As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up oir'purpose to a life beyond life. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against...

...reasonable creature, God's Image ; but he who destroys a good Book kills reason itself. Areopagitica. A good Book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ibid. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like...

...ghosts, And kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us ; From fleshless lips.' — EL BULWER. ' A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life'. — MILTON. ' Blessed be the memory of those who have left their blood, their...

...Hence a book containing the life of a true man is full of precious seed. To use Milton's words, 'it is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.' Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating influence, and a power for good....

...they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that livsng intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively...masterspirit, 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...

...that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as tjiose fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. "Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there. is no great loss; and...

...that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to...master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'T is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss;...

...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...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...

...us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. 7. 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. 8. Revolutions of ages do not often recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the...

...great commanding movement Serves not one, but all mankind." The great Milton has told us that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Old Richard de Bury, in " Philobiblon," written as early as the fourteenth century,...