 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soule was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve,...in a violl, the purest efficacie and extraction of the living intellect that bred them." In the cose of a writer like M. Say, all this applies forcibly,... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...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 that living intellect that bred them." Books have always... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...contain a poteneie of life in them, to be as active as that soule was, whose progeny they are ; n;iy, they do preserve, as in a violl, the purest efficacie and extraction of the living intellect that bred them." In the case of a writer like M. Say, all this applies forcibly,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...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. I know they are as... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." " But, lest I should... | |
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life i» them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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 phial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...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. I know they are as... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 684 pages
...an; 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 that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...active as that soul was, whose progeny they arc; 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 vigourously productive, Bs those fabulous dragons' teeth; nnd being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
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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. 
