| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1832 - 558 páginas
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| Englishmen - 1837 - 494 páginas
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books arc' not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency...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.... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 páginas
...My lady sweet, arise ; Arise, arise. 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 that living intellect that bred them ..... | |
| 1837 - 638 páginas
...For (to use the language of Milton), " 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 that living intellect that bred them. I... | |
| American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 páginas
...(speaking merely of human productions.) " 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 that living intellect that bred them. They... | |
| 1838 - 514 páginas
...is accustomed to the reflection that "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" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 páginas
...is accustomed to the reflection that "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"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 398 páginas
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| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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 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... | |
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