 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 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...reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were ia the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...religion est une affaire si embardown, 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 guod book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man livcs a... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...posterity of those who are yet unborn." Books, which Milton so beautifully refers to when he writes, " Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason herself—kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden on the earth ;... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1864 - 704 pages
...proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. COLEKIDGE. CXV. "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...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 Swan Plumer - Christian life - 1864 - 620 pages
...preserve as a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. ... A good book is the precious lifeblood of... | |
 | Holton Library, Brighton, Mass - 1865 - 280 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. Tract of Education. As good almost kill a Man, as kill a good Book ; who...but he who destroys a good Book kills reason itself. Areopagitica. A good Book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1866 - 298 pages
...glory donbtful, future fame impossible !" his soul against the licenser. " As good," he cries out, — "As good, almost, kill a man as kill a good book —...but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...that bred them." The transition to the second part is cautiously worded: "And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book." Milton appears reluctant ("as good almost") to equate killing a man and a book. In fact, however, the... | |
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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:... 
