 | Annie Kane - 1867 - 252 頁
...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 a good book kills reason...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... | |
 | 1867 - 488 頁
...precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life" — "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who...destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image ^f God, as it were, in the eye," — who also warns, how "revolutions of ages do not oft recover the... | |
 | Brighton (Boston, Mass.) - 1867 - 112 頁
...our best love ? Indeed, Milton, in his Areopagitica, spoke not too strongly those memorable words : " As good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself." . * * * * " A good book is not absolutely a dead thing ; the precious life-blood, rather, of a Master... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 頁
...other hand, unless wariness (caution) be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who (He who] kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book ia the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose (with a view) to... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 頁
...that 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...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose fo a life beyond life. It is true, no age... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 頁
...encounter ?" Take another much-admired passage from the same author : " As good almost kill a man as kill a book ; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature...; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye." 51. An Idiomatic Style. — A writer who uses freely and naturally the idioms of the English language... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 頁
...high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. HM. As good almost kill a man, as kill a good book ; who...image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason Itsel1. A reopagiiica. A good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit embalmed and treasured... | |
 | James Fleming - 1870 - 792 頁
...in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 頁
...that 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...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... | |
 | Mary J. Harper - 1870 - 216 頁
...Style on one or more of the following topics. MODEL. A GOOD BOOK. As good almost kill a man as kill a book ; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature...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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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 a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the... 
