 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 pages
...iustice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, out do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.' — Milton. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. OLIPHANT AM. SON, KJ>IM;lui;i! : B. JACKSON,... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...iustice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, out do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they an'—MiltoM. LONDON: WAED AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. OLIPHANT AND SON, EDINBURGH : R. STARK, GLASGOW:... | |
 | 1855 - 452 pages
...reported are, like books—to use the emphatic language of Milton—"not absolutely dead things, but they contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...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 of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | 1856 - 352 pages
...say some. True, but what arc books? Hear Milton : " Books contain a progeny of life in them, to bo as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that liviug intellect that bred them. A good work is a... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...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 of some evil, although its general... | |
 | 1856 - 870 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 OB that «oul was whose progeny they are." — ffilton. LONDON:... | |
 | 1856 - 790 pages
...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 and treasured up on purpose to a... | |
 | Walter Colton, Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 390 pages
...Dutct itre***. Books are not absolutely dead things, bat do contain a progeny of life in them, to te as active as that soul was whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve, as tn & vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." MILTON. PREFACE.... | |
 | 1856 - 668 pages
...books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprispn, and do sharpest justice ou 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. — MILTON. (1.) "... | |
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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... 
