 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....  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Стр. 360редактор(ы): - 1816Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - Страниц: 384
...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...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... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1995 - Страниц: 234
...vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." He describes them as "reason itself," the "image of God, as it were, in the eye" (720). Where books are angels, censors are demons who commit "a kind of massacre, whereof the execution... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - Страниц: 160
...of a good book. For (he writes) although a man is a reasonable creature, God's image, a good book is reason itself, the image of God, as it were in the eye. So at first good books are equal to men. But shortly, they become superior. "Many a man lives a burden... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - Страниц: 270
...be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable cteature, 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... | |
 | Carl Jensen, Project Censored - 1996 - Страниц: 354
...21 — New 3R's — Reading, Writing, and Reloading 'As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...he who destroys a good book kills reason itself." —John Milton CHAPTER 3 Top Censored Books 011995 Nineteen-ninety-five was a terrific year for the... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - Страниц: 394
...those exercises in destruction signal a repudiation of reason. As John Milton wrote in Areopagitica, "who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye." 31 The age of the printing press, which had seemed... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - Страниц: 708
...intellect that bred them. . . . 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...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... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - Страниц: 868
...considered the best of his prose works, John Milton wrote: 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.130 In On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, 1655, Milton wrote: John Mifton Avenge, O Lord, thy... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - Страниц: 666
...Simpson (1956-1963). Episode broadcast Feb. 26, 1960. As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica:... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Страниц: 686
...that soul was whose progeny they are. 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume....Othello Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor se kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. 7459 Areopagitica It was from out the rind of one apple... | |
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