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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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Letters to the Perplexed

Henry Hamlet Dobney - 1878 - 272 pages
...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, &c." Thus our Milton of books in general, thinking chiefly of the noble works wherewith...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...God, as it were, in thu eye. Many a man lives n burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious d who entereth good, if timely and true warning shall have been given a life beyond life. 'Tis true no age can restore n life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and...
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Etienne Dolet, the martyr of the Renaissance, Issue 215

Richard Copley Christie - 1880 - 918 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.' — MILTON. OT disheartened by his past misfortunes, or by the confiscation of...
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Étienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance, 1508-1546. A Biography

Richard Copley Christie - 1880 - 600 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.' — MILTON. OT disheartened by his past misfortunes, or by the confiscation of...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 42

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1880 - 542 pages
...pretend." For a few, such as this pieta, we must borrow Milton's stronger praise, "They are the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond Ufa" WC LEFROT. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. THE natural history and antiquity of oaths in...
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Étienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance; a Biography

Richard Copley Christie - 1880 - 610 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.' — MILIOS. OT disheartened by his past misfortunes, or by the confiscation of...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious ions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears true, no age can restore a life whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do...
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The Choice of Books

Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 104 pages
...to the trivial bonk; they make it dead for them; they do what lies in them to destroy ' the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ;' they ' spill that scason'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in Bookes.' For...
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Association Libraries and Librarians

Cephas Brainerd - 1881 - 20 pages
...day, but come they will to the earnest, the persevering and sincere. " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." This precious life-blood wherever found . has an affinity for its like, and so...
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Literary News, Volume 2

1881 - 410 pages
...God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen 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." Baxter forgot his theology long enough once to make a sensible lay remark about...
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