 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1858 - 524 pages
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — " Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature — God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
...as that soul whose " progeny they are." All the more reason to beware of violence against books. " As good almost kill a man as kill a good " book. Who...kills a reasonable creature, God's " image ; but he whp destroys a good book kills reason itself, " kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pages
...fabulons dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. As good almost to - ^sN ) 5C q;Y T 0 % xJ 뾖y# : ] Khq[D ~*! ivA j 06 J8 7žr`GJmh — Hod's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself—kills the image of God, as... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a good, reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kilta reason itself, kills... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; * and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost Ml a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who... | |
 | Victoria regia - 1861 - 378 pages
...being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be used, as good almost kill a Man, as kill a good Booke; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, God's Image; but hee who destroycs a good booke... | |
 | William Spalding - 1862 - 438 pages
...vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a geod book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...plaisir et à ses profits « trouve que la religion est une affaire si embardown, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness...reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a guod book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man livcs a... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...posterity of those who are yet unborn." Books, which Milton so beautifully refers to when he writes, " Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason herself—kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden on the earth ;... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - 1864 - 620 pages
...preserve as a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. ... A good book is the precious lifeblood of... | |
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And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : 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... 
