...dreams, Be wise and tute." "For \books,"— says Ivlilton in one of his most beautiful pros* Works *— " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest essence and extraction of that...

...says MiJ ton, " in the thought of what incalculable good or evil may be done by one single book. Eooks 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...

...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 purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man lives a...

...justice upon them as " malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead " things ; but they have a potency of life in them, to " be as active as that soul was whose progeny they " are : nay, they contain, as in a vial, the purest ex" tract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. " They...

...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...

...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame...

...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame...

...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...

...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...

...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...