| Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 páginas
...animal or a work of art." The nature of such transpersonal life has been best expressed by Milton: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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. ...... | |
| Andrew King, John Plunkett - 2004 - 608 páginas
...to have an eye how books bemean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. In them is preserved, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
| A. C. Grayling - 2004 - 260 páginas
...peers in do not expect an apostle to look out', but because Milton is right when he says that books 'contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the souls whose progeny they are' - bearing in mind that they are the progeny as much of readers' as... | |
| Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 páginas
...vigilant eye on 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... | |
| Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 páginas
...this brief article, which contains a lucid discussion of Milton's conception of potentia materiae. 3 'For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do...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',... | |
| Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 páginas
...making just this kind of leap in Areopagitica. He reifies works in some truly startling statements: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. I... | |
| Rick M. Nañez - 2005 - 277 páginas
...Lost and Paradise Regained—would object to this superstitious notion by declaring, "Books are not dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
| Thomas Krefeld, Wulf Oesterreicher, Hans-Martin Gauger - 2005 - 336 páginas
...kommt, findet sich eine ägyptische Anspielung in seinem Text, die das Einbalsamierungsritual betrifft. Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them [...], a good Book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
| Michael Gorman - 2005 - 244 páginas
...appreciate the solitude of reading. Living Things For hooks are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain a 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... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...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...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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