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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. "
Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England for the Liberty of ... - Page 9
by John Milton - 1905 - 100 pages
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The Bible Christian

1840 - 448 pages
...preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...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...
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The poetical works of ... George Crabbe, with his letters and journals, and ...

George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,...teeth , and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man...
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Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other...
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Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections, Volume 2

Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious...
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Home sketches and foreign recollections, Volume 2

lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious...
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Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections, Volume 2

Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth;...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,...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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 41

1857 - 602 pages
...example, from Milton's Areopagitica, why should we not substitute " picture" for the word " book ?» £ And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: [picture] who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. su , dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,...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...
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