 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 páginas
...BIOGRAPHIES OF GREAT MEN. OTJK forefathers still live among us in the records of their lives, as well as iu the acts they have done, and which live also ; still...exercise an elevating influence, and a power for good. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Preface. CORNELIUS NEPOS, Preface. SALLUST, Catiline, c. 3. CHATHAM REACHED HIS HIGHEST... | |
 | 1875 - 797 páginas
...are preserved ;" to Milton, the poet, and fervid apostle of religious and civil liberty, "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life;" "God be thanked for books," says the clear, pure, and eloquent Channing, in his... | |
 | William Barrows - 1875 - 370 páginas
...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 life-blood of a 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 ;... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 páginas
...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 life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — John Milton. 500. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
 | Spectre - 1875 - 346 páginas
...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 life-blood of a 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,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 páginas
...containing the life of a true man is full of precious seed. It is a still living voice : it is an intellect. To use Milton's words, " it is the precious lifeblood...Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating and ennobling influence. But, above all, there is the Book containing the very highest Example set... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 páginas
...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 life-blood of a 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;... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 páginas
...the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life !" CIV. —ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. GRAY. THOMAS GRAY was born... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1877 - 528 páginas
...constructed deliberately from outside, like a thing made by hands. Doth not John Milton say that a good book is " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ; so that he who destroys a good book commits not so much a murder as a massacre,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 páginas
...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 life-blood of a Master Spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis tfue, no age can restore a life ; whereof perhaps there is no great loss: and... | |
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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. 
