 | Annie Kane - 1867 - 252 páginas
...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; and revolutions of ages do... | |
 | 1867 - 488 páginas
...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... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1867 - 784 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1867 - 844 páginas
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1867 - 524 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1867 - 512 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Cowe - 1868 - 522 páginas
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1868 - 520 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 110 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Fleming - 1870 - 792 páginas
...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 ; and revolutions of ages... | |
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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. 
