 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 Life of John Milton - 252. oldalszerző: Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 oldal
...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, Mils a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 oldal
...good hook, Who kills a man kills a reasonahle creamre, God's image: hut he who destroys a good hook kills reason itself, kills the image of God. as it were in the eye, Good and evil we know in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparahly; and the knowledge... | |
 | Marion Moore Hill - 2003 - 240 oldal
...glowing as he did so. Then Mavis devised a new tactic, answering in kind. When he offered the following: As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. —John Milton, Areopagitica Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of... | |
 | Randal Marlin - 2002 - 334 oldal
...prepublication and post-publication censorship: "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ... he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."5 Perhaps his main argument is the argument from truth, that by prohibiting publication, the learning... | |
 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair - 2002 - 346 oldal
...resultant process of destabilization, the good would be killed off along with the bad ("he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye"). The Enlightenment value of rationality—inherited, I have argued, most passionately by Rushdie himself... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 oldal
...are said to preserve the extraction of the intellect that bred them, they are again physiologized: Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life... | |
 | Owsei Temkin - 2002 - 302 oldal
...fail to be realized — in short, to develop a feeling for the fate of human affairs. As Milton said, "Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 oldal
...chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost Lill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills 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. Tis true,... | |
 | Amy Hungerford - 2003 - 216 oldal
...equivalent of persons vulnerable to law. Arguing against restrictive licensing codes, Milton suggests that "unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."22 In poetic and (later) novelistic envoi, starting at least as early as Chaucer, books are admonished... | |
 | Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 oldal
...Kilnnnul Burke (1729-97), from Reflection} on the Revolution in France Simon Jenkins, writer and'columnist As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
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