 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 Seiten
...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 preserv e, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 Seiten
...But if books inculcate evil and pernicious principles, either in taste or Aloráis, " since they doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule whose progeny they are," they must, at the tribunal of criticism, be duly informed against, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 Seiten
...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 that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 Seiten
...them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do ecu** P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are: najr, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | 1857 - 878 Seiten
...thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found "a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 Seiten
...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 extract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. They are... | |
 | 1818 - 762 Seiten
...how boolccs deroeane themselves as well as men. For bookes 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 do preserve, as in a violl, the purest efficacie and... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books 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 do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 Seiten
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that Sou'.e 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. I know they are... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 Seiten
...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."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed further with these authorities. The universal sentiment... | |
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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. 
