 ... 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 lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 168by John Milton - 1845Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...prgcipns lit'phlnnH nf a mgsterjpirit^ imbalmed and treasure^ up on purpose to a ljfje_beyondTiife^ It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We_shouJoLbe wary, therefore, whaj.^ersecuJkoLHcexaise against the living labors of public men, how... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 558 pages
...of ages. This has * Sen. Epist. 117. happened in other cases ; and ages, as Milton remarks, do not recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. But religious feelings, and the sentiments of divine power involved in them, so far from being wanting... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Christian ethics - 1826 - 528 pages
...of ages. This has * Sen. Epist. 117. happened in other cases ; and ages, as Milton remarks, do not recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. But religious feelings, and the sentiments of divine power involved in them, so far from being wanting... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Apologetics - 1829 - 234 pages
...deceitful, and his understanding unable, without assistance, to discern truth; which, speaking " ' Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.' Milton, Areopagitica, Works, Vol. ip 15. (ed. Birch.) See Notes and Illustrations to chapter I. No.... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We • ho'iu be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poets, English - 1834 - 358 pages
...the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a re. jected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1834 - 312 pages
...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. It is true, no age...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...precious life-blood of a 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 ; the revolutions of ages do not often recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors Methinks I see in my mind a noble... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...the earth ; but a good 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...therefore what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since... | |
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