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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. "
The American Whig Review - Page 484
1845
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 123

1919 - 644 pages
...that. The true teacher takes the formal texts, and extracts from them what Milton called " the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life l>eyond life." You cannot go out into the labor market and hire " help " at the minimum wage...
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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...most unpromising and drossiest of his works. We thought, unreasonably perhaps, that " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," would prove the vitality, and be found somewhere latent.in every single work he...
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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...most unpromising and drossiest of his works. We thought, unreasonably perhaps, that " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," would prove the vitality, and be found somewhere latent in every single work he...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 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. SIR JOHN 1 IKIISCHKL in an address to men whose education had been neglected or...
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The Young scholar, Volume 1

1872 - 692 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. — John Milton. A VISIT TO MANCHESTER. ABOUT three years ago — I don't know...
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Essence of wisdom, distilled from the flowers of ancient and modern ...

Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. A good work is a precious life-blood of a master spirit ; embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life — they are the seasoned life of man — the ethereal breath of reason itself....
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 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. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof there is perhaps no great loss ; but revolutions of ages do...
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Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth / hut a good ~book is the precious life Nood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ! It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do...
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The Church and Her Children

William Barrows - 1875 - 370 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. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revo13 This burning of...
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Ye Vampyres!: A Legend of the National Betting-ring, Showing what Became of it

Spectre - 1875 - 346 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. ' It is true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss, and revolutions of ageti...
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