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The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence - Page 101
1855
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them te be as active as that soul was whese 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...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. I know they are as lively, .and as vigorously productive, as...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

1857 - 878 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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." Books have always been deemed a power ; the press is termed...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 pages
...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. I know they are as lively arid vigorously productive as those...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 pages
...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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 1

1814 - 684 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. I know they are as lively, and as vigourously productive, as...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...but do contain a progeny of 'life in them to be aa 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 that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigourously productive, Bs...
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

1833 - 370 pages
...absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul «..a whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extractan of that living intellect that bred them. — MILTOX. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution...
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Essays

Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency o! life in them tii be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve,...as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know that they are as livingly and as vigorously productive...
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