 | Robert Cowe - 1868 - 522 pages
...in a vial the 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... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 110 pages
...given rather to 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... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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 fo a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...from some of the most unpromising and drossiest of his works. We thought, unreasonably perhaps, that " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," would prove the vitality, and be found somewhere latent in every single work he... | |
 | 1919 - 644 pages
...phonograph do that. The true teacher takes the formal texts, and extracts from them what Milton called " the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life l>eyond life." You cannot go out into the labor market and hire " help " at the minimum wage... | |
 | James Fleming - 1870 - 792 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. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...from some of the most unpromising and drossiest of his works. We thought, unreasonably perhaps, that " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," would prove the vitality, and be found somewhere latent.in every single work he... | |
 | 1872 - 692 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. A VISIT TO MANCHESTER. ABOUT three years ago — I don't know... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 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. SIR JOHN 1 IKIISCHKL in an address to men whose education had been neglected or... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pages
...image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden upon 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 life !" GENIUS. EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON MERCANTILE LIBRARY... | |
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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. 
