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" I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.... "
The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Page 360
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of (¡od, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to...
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The North British Review, Volume 13

1850 - 662 pages
...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, destroys reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to...
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Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1850 - 232 pages
...kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but 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 upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured...
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The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...kills a reafonable creature, God's image ; but he who deftroys a good book, kills reafon itfelf, kills the image of 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 mafter fpirit, embalmed and...
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Lays and Legends: Or, Ballads of the New World

Walter Thornbury - 1851 - 188 pages
...my face), said to ye : — " Unless wariness be used, as good almost kid a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature — God's...itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. . . . We should be wary, therefore, how we spill that second life of man preserved and stored up in...
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Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature ..., Volume 20

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1851 - 570 pages
...himself with the weapons of the mighty Milton, does battle vigorously. " Who kills a man," he says, " kills a reasonable creature— God's image ; but he...itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye." Alas! murderous critic, this is not all. Draco, we are told, punished the sin of which you are so often...
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Lays and Legends: Or, Ballads of the New World

George Walter THORNBURY - 1851 - 188 pages
...as good almost kiU a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason...itself, the image of God, as it were, in the eye. . . . We should be wary, therefore, how we spill that second life of man preserved and stored up in...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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...
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A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies ...

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...disappointed benevolence, or the warmth of indignant virtue. Mackenzie. SEC. LX. THE VALUE OF A GOOD BOOK. 1 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 bur As good almost kill a man, as...
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