 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...phial, 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.... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...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 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 ;... | |
 | William Barrows - Baptism - 1875 - 370 pages
...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 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 ;... | |
 | Spectre - Gambling - 1875 - 346 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | 1875 - 797 pages
...imposture, are preserved ;" 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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...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 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 - Latin language - 1875 - 418 pages
...Hence a book 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
...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 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;... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1876 - 448 pages
...full of precious 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 - English fiction - 1877 - 528 pages
...constructed deliberately 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,... | |
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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. 
