 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 292 pages
...how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do tharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but due contain a potencle of life in them to be as active as that soule was whote progeny they are; nay... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...trip about him at command. 7456 'Arcades' Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica 1 Pericles This world to me is but a ceaseless storm...10442 Richard II The purest treasure mortal times aff 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - Religion - 2009 - 502 pages
...interaction. H. Richard Niebuhr2 He that owneth his words and actions, is the Author. Thomas Hobbes5 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Michael Heim - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...Omar Khnyyam. trans. Edward FitzGerald 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 thai living intellect that bred Ihem —... | |
 | John Durham Peters - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 308 pages
...any possibility of interaction. Socrates would perhaps agree with John Milton, with a shiver, that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them."" Here the Phaedrus foreshadows the blossoming of a wide array of discourses in the second half of the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 414 pages
...unborn, and who though dead was yet to speak with him in those written memorials which, says Milton, " contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are," he seemed to himself to be touching the electric chain of his own ancestry... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...said to amount to a belated transformation of Milton's argument in Areopagitica, that 'books . . . contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are', that they 'preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves, as well as men. . . . For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
 | Richard Moon - Law - 2000 - 330 pages
...interference from the state. Milton 1927, 4-5, regarded the printed word as the expression of reason: '[B]ooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to 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... | |
 | Kristen Poole - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 292 pages
...the antisectarian pamphlets are transformed into a glorification of spawning ideas: "For books . . . contain a potency of life in them to be as active...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... | |
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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. 
