 | 626 sayfa
...affection and his hope wait on your proceedings. — A/iltun. Books ire not absolutely dead things, hut do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose priigeny they ate : nay, tliey do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of tliatliving... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 sayfa
...I2mo. price 5s. <;<). neat cloth. 1* Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, ihey do preserve, 'u in H viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | 1845 - 458 sayfa
...Milton says, " to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves ; for books are not dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are." It is of the greatest concernment to the present and the future,... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sayfa
...men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sayfa
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sayfa
...contain a progeny of life in TKerrT to be as active as that soulwas whose progeny Alicy are ; nay, thfy do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extrac\tion of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively^ and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 sayfa
...1674; and to use his own words, his " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." But in spite of all his mental efforts, and the energy and skill of Cromwell and his army,t the Commonwealth... | |
 | 1845 - 460 sayfa
...Milton says, " to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves ; for books are not dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are." It is of the greatest concernment to the present and the future,... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 sayfa
...such "do contain a potency within them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 sayfa
...For where in all her walks shall study selie Such monuments of human state as these ?J »0 [** Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 
