 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....  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Sida 360redigerad av - 1816Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1795 - 432 sidor
...argue freely, according to conscience* above all liberties. As good almost kill a man as kill a book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 sidor
...ever ! THOS. H. GLAMORGAN. OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to 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 itMlf, lolls the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the ear th ; but... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 sidor
...other hand, unless wariness i PW vol. i. 289, be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 sidor
...And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, RS good almost kill a man as kill a good book t who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he wiiy destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills tne image of God, as it were in the eye. Many... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 sidor
...And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good botrfc :-who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 sidor
...And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 sidor
...argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. As good ahuost kill a man as kill a book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...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... | |
 | 1823 - 496 sidor
...useful works. Milton had remarked what Horace alluded to in his Vicum vendrntem, thus et adores/ "He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, — God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kill's reason itself, — kills the image of God, as it were in the eve. Many a man lives a burthen... | |
 | 1857 - 878 sidor
...unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book [picture] : who kills a I'MM kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book [picture], kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a... | |
 | Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - 1823 - 218 sidor
...establishment of a Censorship,— a fatal revolution by which reason herself was stifled : " For he who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."* Thus knowledge of every description was communicated or withheld, according to the arbitrary discretion... | |
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