| Earl Ernest Guile - 2005 - 315 páginas
...part of words is the thought therein contained." Zhuangzi (369BC-286 BC) Chinese philosopher. "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 (1608-1674) English author. "A good book is the purest essence of... | |
| John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 páginas
...itself, 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." This extraordinary passage was written by a man who would be totally blind eight... | |
| Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 páginas
...itself, 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. The first paragraph of the passage, introduced by the quasi-performative clause... | |
| Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 páginas
...itself, 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 was no great loss;... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 páginas
...breathed I From dead men to their kind''' (6-8; italics added). Milton's description of a "good book" as "the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," is here subverted by Wordsworth, who has his opponent, deaf to his own self-defeating... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...itself, 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... | |
| George Rapanos - 2007 - 337 páginas
...within every soul. This 13 hidden treasure is more precious than silver, more precious than gold. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life. But above all things, Truth beareth away the victory. I consider... | |
| Andrew Weeraratne - 2007 - 280 páginas
...goals, and that most who have accomplished great deeds have mastered these simple principles. 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 Also keep in mind that having no mentor is better than having the... | |
| 124 páginas
...destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye ..... t 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 (9.12.1608 - 8.11.1674), (Areopagiticia) The so-called best-sellers... | |
| Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 páginas
...makes that day happier. — KATHLEEN NORRIS Laws die, books never. — EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 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 Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.... | |
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