 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.  Annual Report - Pàgina 34per American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pàgines
...ope their golden eyes ; With every thing that pretty bin, My lady sweet, arise ; Arise, arise. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...extraction of that living intellect that bred them .. .Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man, as kill a good Book: who kills a Man kills... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pàgines
...them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being... | |
 | 1838 - 514 pàgines
...about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 pàgines
...about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pàgines
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pàgines
...For where in all her walks shall study seize Such monuments of human state as these P ] (I) [ w Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...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 being... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pàgines
...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 progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pàgines
...want your reward in heaven.' BOOKS. 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 phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Francis Hare - 1840 - 40 pàgines
...OF EVERY MONTH, WITH THE MAGAZINES.] 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 purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many a man lives... | |
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