 | 1875 - 797 pages
...to Milton, the poet, and fervid apostle of religious and civil liberty, "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life;" "God be thanked for books," says the clear, pure, and eloquent Channing, in his... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 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. 500. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pages
...containing the life of a true man is full of precious seed ; to use Milton's words, " it is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating influence, and a power for good.... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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 ages do... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 pages
...seed. It is a still living voice : it is an intellect. To use Milton's words, " it is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating and ennobling influence. But,... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1877 - 528 pages
...from outside, like a thing made by hands. Doth not John Milton say that a good book is " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ; so that he who destroys a good book commits not so much a murder as a massacre,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 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. Tis tfue, no age can restore a life ; whereof perhaps there is no great loss: and... | |
 | 1878 - 446 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 ages... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...man Пася a burden to the earth ; but a (jixid t*x>k is the ¡>re<-ioii» life Mood of a maxter 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... | |
 | 1878 - 748 pages
...taught the people knowledge. " 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. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them... | |
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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. 
