 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter 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 that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - 2004 - 608 pages
...eye how books bemean themselves as well as men, and thereafter 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 that soul whose progeny they are. In them is preserved,... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 pages
...on how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter 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 that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Massimiliano Morini, Romana Zacchi - 2006 - 218 pages
...Stuart, restaurata nel 1660 dopo la «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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them [...] who kills a man... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2009 - 677 pages
...Milton's passion for books: books, he writes, '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 ... As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.' As for books' power to corrupt, Milton will have... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter 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 that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 pages
...Augustine would agree with Milton that "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,"2 and in their books their relationship remains vital — that is, alive in the present — 139... | |
 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - 2006 - 254 pages
...eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: For books are 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... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 pages
...eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter 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 that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | John Witte - 2007 - 25 pages
...soul" into his writing. Books, therefore, "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." It is "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,... | |
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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... 
