 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 páginas
...and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they arc. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | 1841 - 500 páginas
...as a motto on the title-page : — " 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, they do preserve as in a viol the piirest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that hrcd them. Many a man lives... | |
 | 1857 - 602 páginas
...thought they thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found " a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 páginas
...price 5s. 6d. neat cloth. " Books are not absolutely Head things, but do contain a potencie of lile in them* to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve, « in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that l>rnl them. — Mauy... | |
 | 626 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for 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 dragon's teeth ; and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...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... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
