 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 576 pages
...nav, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect fhat bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring Up 41 UK» MEN." — MlLTU.V. LONDON... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life." — " They preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." It is astonishing that these books should not in our time have been appreciated by the people, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. (") And yet, on the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...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 them." Instruction, which is the third thing to be noticed under means of education, must always be kept strictly... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...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 them." Instruction, which is the third thing to be noticed under means of education, must always be kept strictly... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...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...on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almo.t kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ;... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...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...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 pages
...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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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 .. .Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man, as kill a good Book: who kills a Man kills... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...feels, with Milton, that books are " as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up. armed men," how awful must be the conviction that even penitence for having uttered a wrong book, cannot kill its... | |
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... 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... 
