 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it wore, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifi-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." We could... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Many a man lives a burden to the 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." The publication of... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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...master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. MY way must be straight on. True with the tongue, False with the heart—-I... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...: 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...book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - English literature - 1837 - 316 pages
...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 Speoch for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have heen... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." But Coleridge was a poet as well as a philosopher ; and therefore even while dwelling... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...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...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; and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...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...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 - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...; 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,...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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... 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. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys... 
