...not too much to hope that each monthly number will merit Milton's description of a " good book," " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a Ufe beyond life." FAITH. NEAR to a precipice's frowning verge,'] A noble, fearless boy Stood, grazing...

...the man ? And is not a good book the very inward soul itself of the author ? So Milton — "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life" — "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable...

...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 Js no great loss;...

...constructed deliberately from outside, like a thing made by hands. Doth not John Milton say that a good book is " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life; so that he who destroys a good book commits not so much a murder as a massacre,...

...constructed deliberately from outside, like a thing made by hands. Doth not John Milton say that a good book is " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life; so that he who destroys a good book commits not so much a murder as a massacre,...

...neither time nor inclination for auy 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, — intellectual...

...were there nothing else in it but his hymn of desire after God and his " Home," it would be truly " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The song has a quaintness, here and there, which scarcely suits the modern taste...

...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." If this be true of the mental offspring of uninspired genius, much more so is...

...constructed deliberately from outside, like a thing made by hands. Doth not John Milton say that a good book is " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life; so that he who destroys a good book commits not so much a murder as a massacre,...

...He is given rather to lose a friend than a jest. 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. Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded...