 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...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... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter to confme, 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,... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...here. ' For books are not absolutely dead things ' — so said Milton — ' but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Many a man lives, a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,... | |
 | 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 treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1855 - 922 pages
...iustice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, out do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.' — Milton. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. OLIPHANT AM. SON, KJ>IM;lui;i! : B. JACKSON,... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...iustice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, out do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they an'—MiltoM. LONDON: WAED AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. OLIPHANT AND SON, EDINBURGH : R. STARK, GLASGOW:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1856 - 870 pages
...and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active OB that «oul was whose progeny they are." — ffilton. LONDON:... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1856 - 668 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves as veil as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, ftnd do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that Bonl was whose progeny they are. — MILTON. (I.) "... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...demean themselves as well as men ; 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." Milton did not forget that unlicensed printing might be productive of some evil, although its general... | |
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not... 
