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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... "
Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 - Page 33
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown tip and down, may chance to bring nto the Silent Land ? " Into the Silent Land ! To...you, ye boundless regions Of all perfection ! tender book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book,...
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The North British Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 8own up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book,...
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The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...kill a man as kill a good book, because who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye." Could the people, instead of merely receiving instruction from the desk and the platform, enter the...
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The North British review

1850 - 654 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a roan as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image; but he who destroys...
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The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...may chance to fpring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unlefs warinefs be ufed, as good almoft kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reafonable creature, God's image ; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the...
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Lays and Legends: Or, Ballads of the New World

Walter Thornbury - 1851 - 188 pages
...town (one before whom I veil my face), said to ye : — " Unless wariness be used, as good almost kid a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. . . . We should be wary, therefore, how we spill that second...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...which bred them. I know they are as lively, as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons' t^eth ; 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,...
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 20

William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...himself with the weapons of the mighty Milton, does battle vigorously. " Who kills a man," he says, " kills a reasonable creature— God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye." Alas! murderous critic, this is not all. Draco, we are told,...
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Lays and Legends: Or, Ballads of the New World

George Walter THORNBURY - 1851 - 188 pages
...town (one before whom I veil my face), said to ye :—" Unless wariness be used, as good almost kiU a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, the image of God, as...
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