 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...worthy of being engraven on the memory of our readers. " Books are no* absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progey they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...Areopagitica, Milton exerted all his powers in advocating the side of liberty. " Books," §aid he, " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in liiem, to be as active лз that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and therefore to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to he as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...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 ; nay, they do preserve,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...enthusiasm of genius and scholarship, upon the shrines of Liberty. He venerates the spirits of books; "for 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...and commonwealth to^ have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...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,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 526 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...in tne church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean therm.-lves ал well ai men. perforation of the precipice. At the mouth of the cave sale two figures; the first, bo ae active as tbat soul was whose progeny they are I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive... | |
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant 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... 
