| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 páginas
...«hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy 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 beingsown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 576 páginas
...nav, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect fhat bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring Up 41 UK» MEN." — MlLTU.V. LONDON... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 274 páginas
...whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to...wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 páginas
...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy 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 being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. (") And yet, on the... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 494 páginas
...progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almo.t kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ;... | |
| 1837 - 638 páginas
...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
| American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 páginas
...intellect that bred them. They are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." And, sir, when our spirits are brought into actual contact with this living principle in books — I mean... | |
| 1838 - 540 páginas
...feels, with Milton, that books are " as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up. armed men," how awful must be the conviction that even penitence for having uttered a wrong book, cannot kill its... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. LICENSERS OF THE PRESS. LEST some should persuade ye, lords and commons, that these arguments of learned... | |
| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 páginas
...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy 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 being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
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