 | 1846 - 838 pages
...Printing is writing rapidly by blocks : hail to it ! And why hail? Because it is the great arrester. A book is "the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up." ' Let each remember that he can be immortal even by giving or saving a thought. He may not "read his... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...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 life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life. It is trtie, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...neither time nor inclination for any others. "A good book," says Milton, in characteristic language, " is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." And when all may enjoy the privilege of communion with such spirits ; an intellectual... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...lives a bur As good almost kill a man, as kill a book : who kills a 2 den 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. It is true, no age can restore a 4 seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...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 life-blood of a master spirit,...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — Milton. BOOKS, BAD. — Some books, like the city of London, fare the better for being burnt. — Tom Brown.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...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 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; and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...as good almos kill a man us kill a jrood book. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good pressed on, till we reached an ample chamber, that seemed the centre of the rock. The clim a life beyond life. MILTON'S Sftuh for tlu Liberty of unlicensed Printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | 120 pages
...therefore thank God and take courage ! — A LOYEE or PBUCITIVE METHODISM. JUm." REVIEWS. " A good look ia the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life." — MILTON. 1. " The Protestant Reformers, and the Reformation." — " A Leeture... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...which belong to all time. In my course of desultory reading I had sense enough to know that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."* But I wanted, as every young man wants, something especially suited to my own... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...which belong to all time. In my course of desultory reading I had sense enough to know that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."* But I wanted, as every young man wants, something especially suited to my own... | |
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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. 
