 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...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 — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 282 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...coin' monwealth 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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilam eye how hooks demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors, For hooks are not ahsohttely dead things, hut do contain a potency of life in them to he as active as that... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig - Study Aids - 2003 - 276 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 active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as... | |
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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... 
