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" 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. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions... "
Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Pose Works of Eminent ... - Page 64
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 555 pages
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Gems of Literature, Elegant, Rare, and Suggestive ...

Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...masterspirit, 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...for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...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...therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since...
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English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual

Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...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...want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should bo wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored...kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom ; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends...
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The Golden Sunset; Or, the Homeless Blind Girl

Annie Kane - 1867 - 252 pages
...should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored...kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom—and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends...
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Scott's Monthly Magazine, Volume 4

1867 - 488 pages
...book kills reason itself, kills the image ^f God, as it were, in the eye," — who also warns, how "revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of...the want of which whole nations fare the worse."* Who ought dare, then, to tamper with or suppress the utterances of a good author? Who presume on the...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...life, •whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft (often do not) recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want...which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary (cautious), therefore, what persecutions we raise against the living labours of public men, how we...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory Notices

English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose fo a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and...raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1869 - 974 pages
...duty of private judgment in all the concerns of human life. " No age," says Milton, " can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and...raise against the living labours of public men ; how we spill that seasoned life of men, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1869 - 974 pages
...duty of private judgment in all the concerns of human life. " No age," says Milton, " can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and...We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raiso against the living labours of public men ; how we spill that seasoned life of men, preserved...
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