 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States - 1877 - 480 páginas
...that bred them." " Many a man," this old Puritan adds, " lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life. Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the... | |
 | 1878 - 446 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;... | |
 | Henry Hamlet Dobney - 1878 - 272 páginas
...destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. ... A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, &c." Thus our Milton of books in general, thinking chiefly of the noble works wherewith... | |
 | 1878 - 748 páginas
...wag wise he taught the people knowledge. " Many a man lives a burden to 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. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - 1878 - 278 páginas
...destroys a good book kills reason itself." 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. THE SHIP ON PIKE. nramr BATEMAN, Morning ! all specdcth well ; the bright sun... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...the image of God, as it were, in thu eye. Many a man lives n burden to the earth ; but a good book dy can go out bad who entereth good, if timely and true warning shall have been given a life beyond life. 'Tis true no age can restore n life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 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 true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz - 1994 - 193 páginas
...Try not to get in the way of that traffic. Remember Milton's admonition vnAreofagitica: A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Be careful not to say anything so egregiously silly as that a great artist—or... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...Areopagitica is unsurpassed for the first: '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 Me.' For the second, we need of course to read more historically, and ask how far proposals... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 páginas
...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond.21 Although he enshrined reason in the minds of independent men, Milton did not at the... | |
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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. 
