 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 páginas
...justice on them as malefactors ; 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 phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that [iving intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 páginas
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 páginas
...than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 páginas
...than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 páginas
...begin To ope their golden eyes ; With every thing that pretty bin, My lady sweet, arise ; Arise, arise. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them .. .Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man, as kill a good Book: who kills a Man kills... | |
 | 1837 - 638 páginas
...forward with his memorial, in homage to the awakening prophet. For (to use the language of Milton), " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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,... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 páginas
...preserved and stored up" therein. " For books," says he, (speaking merely of human productions.) " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. They are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being... | |
 | 1838 - 514 páginas
...thoughts about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 páginas
...thoughts about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... | |
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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. 
