| 1872 - 692 páginas
...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. — John Milton. A VISIT TO MANCHESTER. ABOUT three years ago — I don't know... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 páginas
...kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth : but a good c d e d d d d djQe\ c d _ a [Md c c O P!\ a life beyond life. SIR JOHN 1 IKIISCHKL in an address to men whose education had been neglected or... | |
| Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 páginas
...kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden upon the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life !" GENIUS. EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON MER CANTILE LIBRARY... | |
| Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 páginas
...phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. A good work is a precious life-blood of a master spirit ; embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life — they are the seasoned life of man — the ethereal breath of reason itself.... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...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. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof there is perhaps no great loss ;... | |
| Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 páginas
...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. — John Milton. 500. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
| 1875 - 797 páginas
...imposture, are preserved ;" to Milton, the poet, and fervid apostle of religious and civil liberty, "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life;" "God be thanked for books," says the clear, pure, and eloquent Channing, in his... | |
| William Barrows - 1875 - 370 páginas
...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. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ;... | |
| Spectre - 1875 - 346 páginas
...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. ' It is true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss,... | |
| John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 páginas
...Hence a book containing the life of a true man is full of precious seed ; to use Milton's words, " it is the precious life-blood 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.... | |
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