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... Centennial Papers - Página 10por Congregational Churches in Connecticut. General Conference - 1877 - 214 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 páginas
...suggest hints, rather than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 494 páginas
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books arc' 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... | |
| 1840 - 448 páginas
...hae begun the gude work, e'en sae perfect it, an' ye shall nae want your reward in heaven.' BOOKS. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
| Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
| 632 páginas
...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 living intellect that... | |
| 1860 - 722 páginas
...well as 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 potency of life in them to be as active as that sool was whose progeny they are. — HILTOH. • I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.... | |
| 1858 - 690 páginas
...well as 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 potency of life in them to be as active as thai fuiii was whose progeny they are. — MILTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.... | |
| John Adolphus - 1842 - 706 páginas
...sharp 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do 1 sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books i "% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...to be as active as that soul 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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