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... Scott's Monthly Magazine - Pagina 7481867Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1831 - 424 pagina’s
...preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. As good almost kill a man, as kill a good book : who...a good book, kills reason itself, 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... | |
| 1832 - 536 pagina’s
...Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. In two volumes. 1831. Vol. i. pp. cxlv. 494. Vol. ii. 674. " As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who...a good book, kills reason itself; 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... | |
| Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pagina’s
...chance to spring up around men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a...a good book, kills reason itself, 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... | |
| John Mason Duncan - 1834 - 276 pagina’s
...proclaim his creed from the rising to the setting sun. " As good almost kill a man," said Milton, " as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable...a good book, kills reason itself, 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... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 670 pagina’s
...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... | |
| 1834 - 532 pagina’s
...Boo*.— As good almost kill a man a* kill a (rood book : who kill* a man kills a reasonable creaturo— 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 burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
| 1834 - 606 pagina’s
...almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; hut 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 burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagina’s
...up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be iiTil. as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who...a good book, kills reason itself, 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... | |
| 1835 - 606 pagina’s
...conclude by calling the attention of the opponents of the native press to a passage from Milton : " Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...destroys a good book kills reason itself; kills the image of God in the very eye. Many a man lives a burden upon the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pagina’s
...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 ; who...destroys a good book kills reason itself, 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... | |
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