...to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them oa malefactors ; for books aro not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul wat whose progeny they are." — Millón. LONDON : WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. OblPHANT AJTD...

...read. No man can deny this. JOHN MILTON said, and he knew all about it — "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. A Good Book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit embalmed...

...Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; 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." Milton did not forget that unlicensed printing might be productive...

...us append Milton's more modern and more eloquent laudation : ' Books,' says he, ' 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...

...to confine, imprison, and do sharpest 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 OB that «oul was whose progeny they are." — ffilton. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. <•>.!...

...Their nobler laudation by Milton is familiar to all who speak our tongue. " 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...

...to confine, imprison, and do sharpest 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 thai tool was whose progeny they are. — MILTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature....

...— with whatever departments of human knowledge such volumes deal — that "Books are 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 in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction...

...ignorant, they cannot langh at you." — RICHARD Dl BDRT: Philobiblian. " 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...

...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for hooks are not absolutely dead things, hut do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. — -MiLTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. (1.)...