...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of puHic men, how we spill that seasoned'life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a...

...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since...

...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. "We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men1 — how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ;...

...oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for, the want of which whole nations fare the worse. •-. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...