 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
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...genius and scholarship, upon the shrines of Liberty. He venerates the spirits of books; "for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest .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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...men ; and thereafier to confine, imprison, and do sharpest 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean therm.-lves ал well ai men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to bo ae active as tbat soul was whose progeny they are I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 526 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 pages
...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. I know they are as lively and as vigorously... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life iu 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 vigorously... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...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. I know they are as lively and as vigorously... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but d< contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nny, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...ever-widening circles. The great thinkers of our race still live and act through their works, " 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... | |
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