 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do eontain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are: nay, they... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, arid 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, whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserv... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...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,...dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them te be as active as that soul was whese progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books domean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine,...malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do ecu** P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 954 pages
...of the greatest concernment in thechurch and eomnwn-wealth, to have a vigilant eye, how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1817 - 800 pages
...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 extract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. They are... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as Men ; and thereafter to confine,...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,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and therer after to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not abso^ lutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1823 - 578 pages
...of the greatest concernment to the church and commonwealth to bave a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine,...active as that soul was, whose progeny they are."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed further with these authorities. The universal sentiment... | |
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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... 
