 | John Milton - 2003 - 966 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... | |
 | Rebecca Knuth, John English - 2003 - 277 pages
...witness to the fires and quoted Milton: "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. . . ." This poignant description of the burning of the National Library in Sarajevo is by a former... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - 2004 - 1691 pages
...the Church and Commonwealth to have an eye how books bemean 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. In them is preserved,... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 368 pages
...Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye on 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2006 - 486 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... | |
 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - 2006
...and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them...malefactors: For books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2009 - 680 pages
...Milton's passion for books: books, he writes, '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 ... As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.' As for books' power to corrupt, Milton will have... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 414 pages
...Augustine would agree with Milton that "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,"2 and in their books their relationship remains vital — that is, alive in the present — 139... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 559 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... | |
 | John Witte - 2007 - 388 pages
...soul" into his writing. Books, therefore, "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." It is "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,... | |
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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... 
