 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1858 - 520 pages
...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 and 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 :... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1858 - 524 pages
...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 and 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 :... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pages
...the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is tP{d A #= u lVf t5 q ? Vx $ > z C Hjn "N{ P U cA a life beyond life." — JOHN MILTON. " Here is the best solitary company in the world, and in this... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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. It is true no a.ge can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 448 pages
...a book containing the life of a true man is full of precious seed ; to use Milton's words, " it is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating influence, and a power for good.... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 360 pages
...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." After the execution of Charles I., there appeared a book purporting to be the... | |
 | 1862 - 938 pages
...but it is seldom that all about them perishes. John Milton finely says of a good book, that it is " the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." So, on the contrary, it may bo said of a bad book, that it is the poison of a... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden on 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." Of good books, it may be very truly said, " There's nothing ill can dwell in such... | |
 | 1863 - 922 pages
...noble passage in the Areopagitica : — " 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." Those who write books, who publish books, who collect books, and who read books,... | |
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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. 
