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" God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason 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 lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... "
Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century - Página 154
por Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 404 páginas
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Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and ...

Anna Brownell Jameson - 1858 - 524 páginas
...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...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how...
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Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1858 - 520 páginas
...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...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how...
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Our Christian classics: readings from the best divines, with ..., Volúmenes1-2

Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 páginas
...of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up i'n purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions uf ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for tk want of which whole nations fare the...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 páginas
...of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no a.ge can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ; and 1 According to the fable, Cadmus, having killed the dragon that watched the fountain at Thebes, sowed...
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Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags

William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 páginas
...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...not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for want of which whole nations fare worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 páginas
...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 ; and 1 According to the fable, Cadmus, having killed the dragon that watched the fountain »t Thebes, sowed...
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The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry ..., Tema 11

Adelaide Anne Procter - 1861 - 374 páginas
...life, where perhaps there is no great losse ; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected Truth, for the want of which whole Nations...persecution we raise against the living labours of publick men, how we spill that season'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in Bookes ; since we see...
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The Victoria regia, original contributions in poetry and prose, ed. by A.A ...

Victoria regia - 1861 - 378 páginas
...life, where perhaps there is no great losse; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected Truth, for the want of which whole Nations...persecution we raise against the living labours of publick men, how we spill that seaion'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in Bookes; since we see...
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 páginas
...of a master spirit, imbalmed 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...raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide...
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The Trial of the Constitution

Sidney George Fisher - 1862 - 414 páginas
...essential power. This would be revolution ; and should it happen, it will not be the firsfr instance of "the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse." If the reasoning in this and the preceding chapter be correct, it establishes the following propositions...
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