 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1028 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul was, al p M~Mb 1 B G xd 0 >g u2 C 5 ah+ Ռ5 efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are ля lively and as... | |
 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - Blind - 1860 - 384 pages
...men ; and thereafter to confine in prison, 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 vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1860 - 614 pages
...absolntelv dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active n» 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. Unless wariness be used, as good almost... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 pages
...men ; and thereafter to confine in prison, 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 aa active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest... | |
 | Adelaide Anne Procter - English literature - 1861 - 374 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that soule whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest eflicacie anil extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — 1 know they are as lively, and... | |
 | Victoria regia - 1861 - 378 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that soule whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve^ as in a vial the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that_ bred them.— I know they are as lively, and... | |
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