 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.  The Ceylon magazine - Page 2Full view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...to confine, Imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not nbsolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of 'life 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... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...that published at Rome in the nineteeth year of this nineteenth century. If, as Milton says, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them," the noblest of them all will find their peers on the pages of the Prohibitory Index. Scarcely a score... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...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 of that living intellect that bred them. — MILTOX. We should be wary, therefore,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...For where in all her walks shall study seize Such monuments 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... | |
 | Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency o! life in them tii be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know that they are as livingly and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...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 lively, and as... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books - - - - . - - - - - - - - - - -@- .!/#-$-%-&-'- /)-*-_.,---.-/-0- .2-3-4-n.N.F/T.U.:-;-<-=->-?-D/E/[ was «hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 570 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul who?e progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction uf that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's... | |
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