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" 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... "
Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ... - Page 373
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. 7458 Areopagitica o 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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Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of ...

Kevin J. Vanhoozer - 2009 - 502 pages
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. John Milton4 197 Can we continue to speak, in the wake...
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The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative ...

Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 pages
...is shrouded at once in the interior darkness of the heart and the excessive brightness of the Sun: "as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who...Man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye"...
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Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist ...

Mary Daly - 1999 - 308 pages
...printing. In a passage that must be thought provoking to Searchers, Milton wrote: [A]s good ahnost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills...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...
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Ethics in Education

David E. W. Fenner - 1999 - 380 pages
...compares a book to a human life when he claims, against censorship, that "unlesse warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who...Man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but hee who destroycs a good Book, kills reason it selfe, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye....
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The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression

Richard Moon - 2000 - 330 pages
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... [U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.' 50 In the view of Ong 1982, 46, because '[w]riting...
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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815: Search for a Reasonable World

Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pages
...active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...Image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."18 Milton received his position as secretary as much for his writing ability as for his religious...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Religious & Spiritual Quotations

Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...charge of such a man? — Everybody in the Empire will help to do so. Mencius, I (4th century BCE) 9 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, Areopagitica (1644) 10 Thou shalt not kill;...
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Bookmarked for Murder

Marion Moore Hill - 2003 - 240 pages
...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...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. —John Milton, Areopagitica Books are fatal: they...
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Favourite Wisdom

Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 pages
...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...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master...
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