 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 528 pages
...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 book. Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...dragon's 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...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 of a master-spirit, embalmed and... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...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...-he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, killa the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 pages
...dragon's 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...reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good^iook, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God^ image, but he who destroys a good book, destroys... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image, but he who destroys a good book,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...par take in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. As good almost kill a Man; as kill a good Booke ; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, God's Image ; but he who destroys a good Booke kills reason itselfe. . . . MILTON. — L'ESTRANGE. 129 A good book is the pretious life-blood... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...the other hand, unless wariness be used, us good almost kill a man as kill a good book [picture] : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book [picture], kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...Areopagitica, why should we not substitute " picture" for the word " book ?" " And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : [picture] who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Ciod's image ; but he who destroys a good... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1858 - 524 pages
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — " Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature — God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
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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 up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book:... 
