 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 1 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,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 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^ image, but he who destroys a good book, destroys... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...par take in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. As good almost kill a Man; as kill a good Booke ; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, God's Image ; but he who destroys a good Booke kills reason itselfe. . . . MILTON. — L'ESTRANGE. 129 A good book is the pretious life-blood... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive .43 those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And .... unless wariness be used, as good kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...example, from Milton's Areopagitica, 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 man kills a reasonable creature, Ciod's image ; but he who destroys a good... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 330 pages
...bred them. 1 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 other hand, unless wanness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 806 pages
...the other hand, unless wariness be used, us good almost kill a man as kill a good book [picture] : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book [picture], kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a... | |
 | England - 1857 - 818 pages
...example, from Milton's Areopagitica, why should we not substitute " picture " for the word " book? " " And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill а man as kill a good book [picture] : who kille a mari kills в reasonable creature, God'e image ;... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...VOL. XXVII. NO. LIV. T 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." This characteristically shrewd estimate has much force, when applied to the rapidly increasing literature... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1858 - 524 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... | |
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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... 
