 | ...wait on your proceedings. — A/iltun. Books ire not absolutely dead things, hut do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose priigeny they ate : nay, tliey do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of tliatliving... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 372 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...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... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845
...advocate of civil and religious liberty from 1641 until his death, 1674; and to use his own words, his " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." But in spite of all his mental efforts, and the energy and skill of Cromwell and his army,t the Commonwealth... | |
 | John Milton - 1845
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847
...a ngilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and cold it hap to die, Well bury Ч in a Christmas pie, And evermore »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 587 páginas
...monuments of human state as these ?J »0 [** 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 ofthat living intellect that bred them. I... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - 510 páginas
...THB MAM AKI) IH« SATYK. [Specimen.] COMMERCIAL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Orfftiujljum UHlson, U0pl LONDON BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as thnt soul was whose progeny they are — MILTOK. AUTHORS desirous of having their Literary Productions... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848
...as malefactors : for Books,' he affirms, 'are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in 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 of that living intellect that bred them ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1848
...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... | |
 | 1849
...Liberty of Unlicensed Printing,' which will be familiar to most of his admirers. ' For books,' he says, ' are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency...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.... | |
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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. 
