 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...as men ; and jthereafter to confine, imprison, and, do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...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...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but dp contain a potency of life in them to be as active...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 684 pages
...justice en (hew as malefactors ; for books an; not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. I know they are as... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. I know they are as... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...in them to be aa 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 that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigourously productive, Bs those fabulous dragons' teeth; nnd being... | |
 | Education - 1831 - 424 pages
...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. As good almost kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ;... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...more exquisite than the following : " Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potcucie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they doe preserve as in a violl the purest cfficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...acknowledgment of the devil'« right of superiority. — ROBERT HALL. Books arc not absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul «..a whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extractan... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...of human state as these ? ] (I) [*' Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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, I know they are as... | |
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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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 
