Norton's Literary Almanac for 1852; Containing Important Literary Information; Accounts of American Libraries, Literary Necrology for the Past Year, Including Short Biographical Sketches, Miscellaneous Notices, Etc. An Annual of Interesting Facts, and a Statistical CompanionC.B. Norton., 1852 |
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Página 68 - 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. 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.
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Página 185 - Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan : or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.
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Página 68 - God's [20 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 to a life beyond life.