...inappreciable effect is produced by the great current of the popular reading. " A good book," says Milton, " is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It stands sometimes, like the angel in the Apocalypse, one foot on the land, and...

...not too much to hope that each monthly number will merit Milton's description of a " good book," " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a Ufe beyond life." FAITH. NEAR to a precipice's frowning verge,'] A noble, fearless boy Stood, grazing...

...eloquence and argument to remove that abject badge of a nation's servitude. " A good book," said he, "is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. . . . We should be wary, therefore, what persecutions we raise against the living...

...? And is not 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...

...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 Js no great loss;...

...time nor 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...

...were there 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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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,...