 | 1834 - 536 pages
...thoughts the best way. SIR W. TliMFLX. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they aie; nay, they do preserve as in a viull the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pages
...thoughts the best way. SIR W. TEMPLE. BOOKS are not absolutely dead fixings, but doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they ate; nay, they do preserve as in a yioll the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...them interminably precious. " Books," says their author, " are not absolutely dead things," — " they contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are," — " the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...thoughts tho best way. SIK W. TEMPLB. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, hut doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whoso progeny they arc; nay, they do preserve as in a viol I the purest eflicacie and extraction of... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 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... | |
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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... 
