 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
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...wisdom ; " And books are the legacies they have left us. " Books are not absolutely dead things, but ib contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...of bulky tomes ; for great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.— WB Clulow. 456. 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...the least brains.— WB Clulow. 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...generality of bulky tomes; for great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.— WB CMow. 456. 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...least brains.— WB Clulow. 456. 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... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 452 pages
...reported are, like books—to use the emphatic language of Milton—"not absolutely dead things, but they contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...men ; 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...men, 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... | |
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