 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...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... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 632
...dreams, Be wise and tute." "For \books,"— says Ivlilton in one of his most beautiful pros* Works *— " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest essence and extraction of that... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...awful," says Mi) ton, " in the thought of what incalculable good or evil may be done by one single book. Books 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... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...says MiJ ton, " in the thought of what incalculable good or evil may be done by one single book. Eooks 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... | |
 | 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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 purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man lives a... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...justice upon them as " malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead " things ; but they have a potency of life in them, to " be as active as that soul was whose progeny they " are : nay, they contain, as in a vial, the purest ex" tract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. " They... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...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... | |
 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame... | |
 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 1056
...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame... | |
 | 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...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 that hrcd them. Many a man lives... | |
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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. 
