 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 472 pages
...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...worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution \ve raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...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...fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecu* Crowded together. AS pyndan. f Matters for the consideration of the Areopagus. The chief assembly... | |
 | William Horne - Revelation - 1876 - 424 pages
.... . . It is true no age can restore a life, perhaps no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which all nations fare the worse." Impressed with thoughts like these, every nation has been careful not... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1877 - 444 pages
.... f en lectual, of the most powerful of all the literary arts. In regard embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no age...not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for tht want of which whole nations fare the worse. ****** We boast our light: but, if we look not wisely... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1877 - 668 pages
...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 revolutions of ages-do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth ; for the want of which whole nations fare the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...precious lifeblood of a muster spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there...rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations faro the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...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...ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, 20 for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. extraction. In this sense extract is the modern... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. /?Tis true no uge can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a re)ected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1880 - 208 pages
...a good book, kills reason References, itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. . . . It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps,...is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not often recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We... | |
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... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of 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... 
