 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1834 - 668 pages
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — " Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
 | 1834 - 606 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 weariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable... | |
 | Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; anil being sown up and down may chance to spring up around men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature; God's image; but he who destroys... | |
 | 1834 - 540 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. * * * A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Asia - 1835
...conclude by calling the attention of the opponents of the native press to a passage from Milton : " Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...good book kills reason itself; kills the image of God in the very eye. Many a man lives a burden upon the earth ; but a good book is the precious life of... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 976 pages
...they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and beingsown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be iiTil. as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1835 - 272 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. ' * " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...useless against bad books, since it does not prevent their circulation, the author proceeds : — " As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who...but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself ...... A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...bursts forth with one of those eloquent axioms which are the legacies of great men to all ages : " Whoso kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image...kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it wore, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifi-blood... | |
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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... 
