 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 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 hooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that... | |
 | 1852 - 44 pages
...not the animate, breathing things we were wont to see in some quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...active, as that soul was, whose progeny they are." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophiles, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?—of... | |
 | Joan Simon - 1966 - 472 pages
...a growing scale. As Milton later proclaimed books, far from being dead things, ' contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are'.4 It was from the 153o's that Erasmus's works began to circulate in English at a time when those... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 pages
...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 ....(492) Yet this seeming stress on the punishment of books... | |
 | William Albert Graham - 1993 - 328 pages
...it. - attributed to Rabbi Eliezer 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. - John Milton, Areopagitica Preface This is a book about the fundamental orality of scripture; that... | |
 | Patrick Sims-Williams - 2005 - 474 pages
...idea expressed by Milton in Areopagitica, as things 'not absolutely dead' that 'do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are, nay ... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1993 - 244 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... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 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... | |
 | K. S. Shrader-Frechette - 1993 - 363 pages
...hundred years ago, John Milton wrote that "books are not absolutely dead things," but "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." I hope that this book has such potency, the potential to help change things. I hope that it helps us... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...not absolutely dead things") and with a traditional Christian term (soul): books "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." Previewing difficulties to come, however, the next clause breaks with this tradition in equating "soul"... | |
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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... 
