 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...precious lifeblood 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 do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...book ia the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose (with a view) to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age can restore a life, •whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft (often do not) recover the loss of a rejected truth, for... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose fo a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...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 ^reat loss; and revolution! nf ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...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' do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...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 do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | James Fleming - 1870 - 792 pages
...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 do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...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 12 of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...precious life-blood of a masterspirit, 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 do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...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 do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature. 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... 
