 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1851 - 570 sidor
...himself with the weapons of the mighty Milton, does battle vigorously. " Who kills a man," he says, " kills a reasonable creature— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye." Alas! murderous critic, this is not all. Draco, we are told,... | |
 | John Robinson - 1851 - 576 sidor
...CONGBEQATIONAL MINISTEB, PITTSFIELD, AND PRESIDENT OF BOUDOIN COLLEGE, IN MAINE. " MANY a man," says Milton, " lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." As Mr. Eobinson did... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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 image ; but he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 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...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 life... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 sidor
...Estates and empires are nothing to it. "As good almost," says Milton, " kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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." Fourthly. There is... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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...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." He appeals to antiquity... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 sidor
...And yet, on the other hand, unless weariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...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 treasured... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 sidor
...charge of such a man? — Everybody in the Empire will help to do so. Mencius, I (4th century BCE) 9 Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) 10 Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep... | |
 | Richard Moon - 2000 - 330 sidor
...intellect that bred them ... [U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.' 50 In the view of Ong 1982, 46, because '[w]riting separates the knower from the known' it permits... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 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...Image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."18 Milton received his position as secretary as much for his writing ability as for his religious... | |
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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.... 
