| Thomas L. Pangle - Political Science - 1993 - 244 pages
...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 eye. Many...earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. . . . Give me the liberty... | |
| Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...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 eye. Many...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... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...to be in order that liberty does not turn into licence. 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... | |
| Serge Soupel - Age - 1995 - 252 pages
...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 eye. Many...earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life1. Parler des âges de... | |
| Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...as it were in the eye. So at first good books are equal to men. But shortly, they become superior. "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." Contrary to our first... | |
| Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...seems correct but (E) is more detailed and more accurate. 27. (A) The passage says in lines 23-25, "Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book. . . (has) a life beyond life," which affirms both statement I and statement III. Lines 35-36 say, "books... | |
| William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...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 eye. Many...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. [297-8] Great literature... | |
| Dennis Freeborn - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 502 pages
...kills a reafonabJe creature , Gods Image ; but hee who deftroyes * good Booke, kills reafon it felfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Emhj but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a matter fpirit, imbzlm'd and treafur'd up on purpofe... | |
| David E. W. Fenner - Education - 1999 - 380 pages
...kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but hee who destroycs a good Book, kills reason it selfe, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...man, Mils 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 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... | |
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