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" Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. "
Systematic Catalogue of Books in the Collection of the Mercantile Library ...
by New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association, Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York - 1837 - 312 pages
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

1795 - 432 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise...labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we...labours of public men ; how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed,...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary (therefore ; what persecution we...labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man,' preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed,...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise...labours of public men ; how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed,...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected Irulh, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise...the living labours of public men; how we spill that sea^ soned life of man preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...work in his own energetic language, Ave may justly call it, what he has defined a good book to be, " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." His late biographer, instead of praising Milton for a service so honorably rendered...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise...labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed,...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 4

Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecutions we raise against the living labours of public men, • how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

1857 - 878 pages
...of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book [picture] is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed...labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books [pictures] ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...not oft recover the losse of a rejected Truth, for the want of which whole Nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of publick men, how we spill that season'd Life of Man preserv'd and stor'd up in Books; since we see...
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