 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
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 pàgines
...who would check the printing press to consider well the value of its products. " Books," said he " 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... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pàgines
...the Areopagitica, Milton exerted all his powers in advocating the side of liberty. "Books," said he, "are not absolutely dead ' things, but do contain...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... | |
 | 1850 - 662 pàgines
...Areopagitica, Milton exerted all his powers in advocating the side of liberty. " Books," said he, " 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pàgines
...Areopagitica, Milton exerted all his powers in advocating the side of liberty. " Books," §aid he, " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in liiem, to be as active лз that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial,... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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 dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pàgines
...men; and thereafter to confine in prison, 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 dragon's teeth; and, being... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 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 dragon's teeth; and being... | |
 | 1852 - 406 pàgines
...animate, breathing things we were wont to see in some quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...active, as that soul was, whose progeny they are." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophilos, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten - 1997 - 244 pàgines
...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 do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." 59 On the other... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency 7 Ү 7 S {U : > O Ձ^yi > s| z F _@ Az C + 5 ʿ WЫ 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
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