 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...almos kill a man us kill a jrood book. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Sftuh for tlu Liberty of unlicensed Printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...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 true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | 120 pages
...therefore thank God and take courage ! — A LOYEE or PBUCITIVE METHODISM. JUm." REVIEWS. " A good look ia the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life." — MILTON. 1. " The Protestant Reformers, and the Reformation." — " A Leeture... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 324 pages
...belong to all time. In my course of desultory reading I had sense enough to know that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."* But I wanted, as every young man wants, something especially suited to my own... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 362 pages
...belong to all time. In my course of desultory reading I had sense enough to know that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."* But I wanted, as every young man wants, something especially suited to my own... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...as that soul was whose progeny they are. 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 for a life beyond Ufe.' " LILY WATSON. THE HANDWRITING OF FAMOUS DIVINES. BISHOP BUTLER. BORN 1692... | |
 | 1854 - 500 pages
...contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." How grand a privilege must it be, then, to have — " The sayings of the wise... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...to be the most important part of our literature. That above all other books a biography contains " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Many a time have we felt refreshed and invigorated by the lives of men who, though... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...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. 457. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...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. 457. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
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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. 
