 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...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...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | 632 páginas
...says Ivlilton in one of his most beautiful pros* Works *— " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest essence and extraction of that... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 páginas
...incalculable good or evil may be done by one single book. Eooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active...fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth;... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 páginas
...incalculable good or evil may be done by one single book. Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | 1841 - 508 páginas
...as a motto on the title-page : — " Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was...whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man lives a... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1842 - 706 páginas
...justice upon them as " malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead " things ; but they have a potency of life in them, to " be as active as that soul was whose progeny they " are : nay, they contain, as in a vial, the purest ex" tract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. " They... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 páginas
...prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they arc. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 páginas
...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame... | |
 | 1843 - 520 páginas
...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a ( potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul , dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
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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. 
