 | Friedrich Bouterwek - Literature - 1809 - 506 pages
...chance to fprirg up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unlcfs warincfs be ufed , as good altnoft kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kill« a reafonable creatitre, God's image; but he who dcftroys a good book, kills rcafon itfelf, kills... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as 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 olher hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 952 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed again." Milton's Areopagaica in his Works, edit 1697, p. 374, " At the chapel of Kilfenora two schools... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...destroyed. " As good almost kill a man as kill a good book, (says our mighty master of politics and poetry:) who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book... | |
 | 1857 - 924 pages
...example, from Milton's Areopaffitica, why should we not substitute " picture for the word " book '(" " And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book [picture] : who kills a I'MM kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...useful works. Milton had remarked what Horace alluded to in his Vicum vendrntem, thus et adores/ "He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, — God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kill's reason itself, — kills the image of God, as it were in the eve. Many a man lives a burthen... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as 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 unlesse warinesse be us'd, as__gopd almost kill a Man aS kill a good Book ; who kills a Man kills a... | |
 | 1830 - 890 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." * Some such feeling, as dictated this sentence of our immortal Bard, seems to have influenced the learned... | |
 | Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - Censorship - 1823 - 218 pages
...establishment of a Censorship,— a fatal revolution by which reason herself was stifled : " For he who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."* Thus knowledge of every description was communicated or withheld, according to the arbitrary discretion... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pages
...that bred them. I know they are as lively arid vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." Milton was no more insensible to the moral and political mischief intended by licentious writers, than... | |
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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 kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys... 
