 | James William Massie - Belgium - 1846 - 572 pages
...such "do contain a potency within them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...dend ; For where in all her walks shall study selie Such monuments of human state as these ?J ยป0 [** Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Blacks - 1848 - 796 pages
...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 ; they are as lively,... | |
 | Religion - 1848 - 780 pages
...but that published at Rome in the nineteeth year of this nineteenth century. If, as Milton says, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them," the noblest of them all will find their peers on the pages of the Prohibitory Index. Scarcely a score... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 792 pages
...but that published at Rome in the nineteeth year of this nineteenth century. If, as Milton says, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them," the noblest of them all will find their peers on the pages of the Prohibitory Index. Scarcely a score... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 786 pages
...but that published at Rome in the oineteeth year of this nineteenth century. If, as Milton says, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them," the noblest of them all will find their peers on the pages of the Prohibitory Index. Scarcely a score... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...of his admirers. ' For books,' he says, ' 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul en. To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade,...song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord ! them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...worthy of being engraven on the memory of our readers. " Books are no* absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progey they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that... | |
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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. 
