 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.  Once Upon a Time - الصفحة 161بواسطة Charles Knight - 1854عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 797
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...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 ;... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...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... | |
 | Spectre - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...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.... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...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. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss;... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...full of precious seed. It is a still living voice : it is an intellect. To use Milton's words, " it is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating and ennobling influence. But,... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...not as 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,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...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 tfue, no age can restore a life ; whereof perhaps there is no great loss: and... | |
 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...intellect that bred them." " Many a man," this old Puritan adds, " lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life. Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the... | |
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