 | Tobin Blake - 2011 - 226 pages
...answer. part 3 the journey continues bits and pieces external learning A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — John Milton1 the practice of meditation is like a puzzle: bits and pieces of... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Attempts to quell unpalatable ideas through refusing the licence to print, he says,... | |
 | Stan Malless, Jeff McQuain - 2003 - 248 pages
...passage that could have been written as the epigraph for the Bible itself: "A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life" (Of Education, 1644). Television viewers will remember the verb's use in the 1977... | |
 | 118 pages
...present and his past; The tools he builds with. - Stephen Vincent Bennet good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. - Milton book may be as great a thing as a battle. - Disraeli t books these days... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pages
...God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.46 The transpersonal life of a book is not to be found in any of its discrete parts... | |
 | David Paul Nord - 2004 - 222 pages
...12. The ATS liked to quote from John Milton's famous tribute to books: "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." See, for example, American Messenger, August 1850, 30. 40. American Messenger,... | |
 | Earl Ernest Guile - 2005 - 315 pages
...thought therein contained." Zhuangzi (369BC-286 BC) Chinese philosopher. "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." John Milton (1608-1674) English author. "A good book is the purest essence of... | |
 | John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 pages
...God, as it were in the eye. 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." This extraordinary passage was written by a man who would be totally blind eight... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 pages
...God, as it were in the eye. 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. The first paragraph of the passage, introduced by the quasi-performative clause... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...dead men to their kind''' (6-8; italics added). Milton's description of a "good book" as "the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," is here subverted by Wordsworth, who has his opponent, deaf to his own self-defeating... | |
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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. 
