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" 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 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.... "
Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People - Page 548
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 558 pages
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Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of ...

Kevin J. Vanhoozer - Religion - 2009 - 502 pages
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good 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 eye. John Milton4...
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From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation ...

Dennis Freeborn - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 502 pages
...may chance to fpring up armed men. And yet on the other hand]unleile warineffe be us'd,as good almoft kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reafonabJe creature , Gods Image ; but hee who deftroyes * good Booke, kills reafon it felfe, kills...
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Ethics in Education

David E. W. Fenner - Education - 1999 - 380 pages
...compares a book to a human life when he claims, against censorship, that "unlesse warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who...Man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but hee who destroycs a good Book, kills reason it selfe, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye....
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Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist ...

Mary Daly - Social Science - 1999 - 308 pages
...printing. In a passage that must be thought provoking to Searchers, Milton wrote: [A]s good ahnost 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 eye. Many a man...
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Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing

Michael Heim - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...intellect that bred Ihem — Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Ood's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye A good hook is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...
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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815: Search for a Reasonable World

Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used,...kills a reasonable creature, God's Image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."18 Milton received his position as secretary as much for...
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The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression

Richard Moon - Law - 2000 - 330 pages
...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... [U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill 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 eye.' 50 In the...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...I (4th century BCE) 9 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 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
...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 spring up...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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The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fahulous dragons' teeth, and heing sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness he used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good hook, Who kills a man kills a reasonahle creamre,...
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