 | Myra MacPherson - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 594 pages
...contending that it is essential to learn about vice in order to know virtue. Stone's favorite passage is "Who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, God's Image; but he who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason itselfe." =age 41 RAKING THE MUCK AND RED, WHITE, AND BLUE PATRIOTISM... | |
 | Freeman Dyson - Science - 2006 - 396 pages
...malefactors 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. The important word in Milton's statement is "thereafter." Books should not be convicted and imprisoned... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - Free enterprise - 2006 - 302 pages
...extraction of that living intellect that bred them."10 They are like those fabulous dragon's teeth, that being sown up and down, "may chance to spring up armed men."" And as we take this journey through their works, we will find that over the last three hundred and sixty... | |
 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006
...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. (Milton 1644: 4) Milton suggests that books do purvey ideas; but they are no more likely to 'spring... | |
 | Eric v.d. Luft - Political Science - 2007
...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...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Destroying, censoring, and restricting the written word and discouraging literacy have been standard... | |
 | Wallace M. Alston, Michael Welker - Religion - 2007 - 470 pages
...as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... [It is] as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...itself, kills the image of God as it were, in the eye . . . a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | 124 pages
...age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye ..... t A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | John W. Casperson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 254 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 unless warriors be used as good almost kill a man as a good Book; who Mils a man kills a reasonable creature,... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Performing Arts - 2007 - 346 pages
...and the proper supervision of public utterances in even more jeopardy. Milton is moved to exclaim, "[A]s good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image; but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it... | |
 | Jeanette Greenfield - History - 2007 - 3 pages
...recording of it was unprecedented. It brought to the mind of many observers the quotation from Milton; 'He who destroys a good book kills Reason itself, kills the Image of God ... a good book is the precious life blood of a master-spirit'. Sixty years after the Shoah (Holocaust)... | |
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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... 
