 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1858 - 524 Seiten
...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...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1858 - 520 Seiten
...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...revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse ; therefore we should be wary how... | |
 | Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 Seiten
...of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up i'n purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions uf ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for tk want of which whole nations fare the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 Seiten
...of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no a.ge can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ; and 1 According to the fable, Cadmus, having killed the dragon that watched the fountain at Thebes, sowed... | |
 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 Seiten
...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...not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for want of which whole nations fare worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 Seiten
...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 ; and 1 According to the fable, Cadmus, having killed the dragon that watched the fountain »t Thebes, sowed... | |
 | Adelaide Anne Procter - 1861 - 374 Seiten
...life, where perhaps there is no great losse ; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected Truth, for the want of which whole Nations...persecution we raise against the living labours of publick men, how we spill that season'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in Bookes ; since we see... | |
 | Victoria regia - 1861 - 378 Seiten
...life, where perhaps there is no great losse; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected Truth, for the want of which whole Nations...persecution we raise against the living labours of publick men, how we spill that seaion'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in Bookes; since we see... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 Seiten
...of a master spirit, imbalmed 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...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... | |
 | Sidney George Fisher - 1862 - 414 Seiten
...essential power. This would be revolution ; and should it happen, it will not be the firsfr instance of "the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse." If the reasoning in this and the preceding chapter be correct, it establishes the following propositions... | |
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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 lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... 
