 | Henry C. Mitchell - Computers - 2005 - 244 pages
...some truly startling statements: 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...as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those... | |
 | Michael Gorman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 244 pages
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — John Milton, Areopagitica John Milton wrote his Areopagitica as an attack on what we would... | |
 | Rick M. Nañez - Religion - 2005 - 277 pages
...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 that living intellect that bred them. God be thanked for books!" 10 There are so many other aspects of books and reading that should... | |
 | John Milton - Philosophy - 2006 - 102 pages
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and... | |
 | Haig A. Bosmajian - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 241 pages
...book. As John Milton put it: "[F] or books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them" (5). Then, in condemning the Church's destruction of books, Milton wrote: "Till then books were... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...justice on them as malefactors. 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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and... | |
 | Massimiliano Morini, Romana Zacchi - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 218 pages
...Stuart, restaurata nel 1660 dopo la «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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them [...] who kills a man... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - History - 2009 - 677 pages
...Milton's passion for books: books, he writes, '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 ... As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.' As for books' power to corrupt, Milton will have... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 302 pages
...thinkers are studied because, as thinkers, they have burst the bonds of time and place. Their works "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."10 They are like those fabulous dragon's teeth, that being sown up and down, "may chance to spring... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 430 pages
...Augustine would agree with Milton that "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,"2 and in their books their relationship remains vital — that is, alive in the present — 139... | |
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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. 
