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" ... 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 eye. "
The Atlantic Monthly - Página 274
1885
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...monument in every truly sanctified soul, and by the channel of this good book, pouring what Milton calls the " precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," into the vital circulation of the militant church. There we pray and are persuaded...
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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ..., Volumen12

1832 - 528 páginas
...dragons' teeth, and being sown; up and down may chance to spring up armed men. * * * * A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." We cannot trust ourselves longer with the prose works of Milton. Perhaps at a...
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Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and ..., Volúmenes1-2

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 670 páginas
...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 embalmed...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss: and revolutions of ages do...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumen3

1834 - 532 páginas
...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 life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. "Tis true no age can restore a life whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ;...
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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volumen2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 páginas
...creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself ...... A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volumen3

Englishmen - 1836 - 274 páginas
...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 embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The publication of a book is like the scattering of seed upon the earth. The act...
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The New-York Review, Volumen3

1838 - 514 páginas
...progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," and it sadly damps his enthusiasm to behold them dealt with like a bale of cloth...
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Visits and Sketches, at Home and Abroad

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 páginas
...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 embalmed...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss : and revolutions of ages do...
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Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...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 life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, * Laws and orders relating to diet in Lent, and...
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Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections, Volumen2

Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 páginas
...armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to 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." The quantity we have to learn, and know, and remember, encreases fearfully every...
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