 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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.  The Christian Teacher - Page 901841Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...and do fharpeft juftice on them as malefadtors : For Books are not abfolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that foule was whofe progeny they are ; nay they do preferve as in a violl the pureft efficacie and extradtion... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...justice on them as malefactors; for books are 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...justice on them as malefactors; for books are 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... | |
 | 1852 - 406 pages
...quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, "books are 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." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophilos, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the 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... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
....justice on them as malefactors : for books are 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...justice on them as malefactors ; for books are 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life iu 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 pages
...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... | |
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