 | 1795 - 432 pages
...whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and sift essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life. MILTON. Liherty of Unlicensed Printing. -•"-<**•'• IjMQfWW-H W'* TUB NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the SBthereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life. But lest 1 should be condemned of introducing licence, while I oppose licensing, I refuse not the pains... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the oethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life. But lest I should be condemned of introducing licence, while I oppose licensing, I refuse not the pains... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and sift essense, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life. Milton. OF THE BRAVERY OF ENGLISH SOLDIERS. By those who have compared the military genins of the English... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that etherial and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself — slays an immortality rather than a life." After this quotation, we dare add nothing of our own. We shall proceed to .the work in hand. In the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life. But lest I should be condemned of introducing license, while I oppose licensing, I refuse not the pains... | |
 | 1828 - 604 pages
...the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.' — Areopagitica. An admirable idea of De Lolme on the liberty of the press, is so peculiary applicable to the present... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 598 pages
...the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.' — Areopagitifa. An admirable idea of I)e Lolme on the liberty of the pre.HS, is so peculiary applicable... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...a course of steel, or swallowing a bullet. By the narrowness of thsir z2 / ''ue alhereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life. — Milton. DCCCCXXIX. He whose days in wilful wo are worn, The grace of his Creator doth despise,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the aelhereal and'fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.—Milton. DCCCCXXIX. That will not use his gifts for thankless niggardise. He whose days in wilful... | |
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... seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an... 
