 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.  The Saturday Magazine ... - Strana 141834Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Milton - 1843 - Počet stránok 444
...justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they arc. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | 1896 - Počet stránok 854
...likens good books to "true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble." "Books." says Milton, "are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay, they doe preserve as In a violl that purest efflcacie and extraction... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - Počet stránok 104
...Liberty. ) large vol. I2mo. price 5s. <;<). neat cloth. 1* Books 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, ihey do preserve, 'u in H viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | 1841 - Počet stránok 500
...sentence of Milton, as a motto on the title-page : — " Books 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 piirest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - Počet stránok 104
...price 5s. 6d. neat cloth. " Books are not absolutely Head things, but do contain a potencie of lile in them* to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve, « in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | Počet stránok 626
...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... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - Počet stránok 420
...1674; and to use his own words, his " 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." But in spite of all his mental efforts, and the energy and skill of Cromwell and his army,t the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - Počet stránok 618
...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... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - Počet stránok 796
...sharpest justice to them 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - Počet stránok 566
...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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
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