 | 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... | |
 | 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.) "... | |
 | 1856 - 824 pages
...ami Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how book» demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for lx>oktiirt nut absolutely dead things, but do contain a ¡ml. my of life in them to be .i» active... | |
 | 1857 - 584 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...a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that evil was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pages
...and common wealth 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 u progeny of life in them, to be as active as that evil was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...thought they thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found " a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...thought they thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found "a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as ia a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | 1858 - 688 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 as malefactors ; for books ore not absolutely dead things, hut do contain n potency of life in them to be as active as that soul... | |
 | 1860 - 716 pages
...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 absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whole progeny they are. — MILTON. I. —... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 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 as malefactors; for books «re not absolntelv dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active n» that... | |
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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... 
