 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.  Annual Report - Página 34por American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 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...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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 páginas
...malefactors, For hooks are not ahsohttely dead things, hut do contain a potency of life in them to he as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest effiracy and extraction of that living intellect that hred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously... | |
 | Gary A. Olson - 2002 - 202 páginas
...the intellectual life of the academy Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. —John Milton His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. —John... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 páginas
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Whatever the relation... | |
 | Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Timothy Raylor - 2002 - 400 páginas
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violi the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.'38 Milton hesitates... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 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...a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that Irving intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 páginas
...has been best expressed by Milton: 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 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...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... | |
 | Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 páginas
...some truly startling statements: 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...as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those... | |
 | Michael Gorman - 2005 - 244 páginas
...absolutely dead things, but they do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — John Milton, Areopagitica John Milton wrote his Areopagitica as an attack on what we would now... | |
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