 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
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 páginas
...the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; 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." Milton did not forget that unlicensed printing might be productive of... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 páginas
...judicious eulogy, let us append Milton's more modern and more eloquent laudation : ' Books,' says he, ' 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... | |
 | 1856 - 824 páginas
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them oa malefactors ; for books aro not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul wat whose progeny they are." — Millón. LONDON : WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. OblPHANT AJTD SOW,... | |
 | 1856 - 870 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 OB that «oul was whose progeny they are." — ffilton. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. <•>.!... | |
 | 1856 - 732 páginas
...can not laugh at you." Their nobler laudation by Milton is familiar to all who speak our tongue. " 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... | |
 | 1858 - 688 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 tool was whose progeny they are. — MILTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 páginas
...of which a Commonwealth ought to take no less vigilant charge than of their living subjects. " For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...as active as that soul whose " progeny they are." All the more reason to beware of violence against books. " As good almost kill a man as kill a good... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 páginas
...never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot langh at you." — RICHARD Dl BDRT: Philobiblian. " x+d t . $ y kR L " pw uP R -\@4 : W K< $ > ! ,2 Fbge ʣ < $ p was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | 1859 - 802 páginas
...the most interesting of the present day. If ' books,' as Milton has said in his ' Areopagitica,' ' contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are,' surely it behoves us to see that that life shall be widely diifused. ' 1 know,' continues the poet... | |
 | 1859 - 690 páginas
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for hooks are not absolutely dead things, hut do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. — -MiLTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. (1.) "The... | |
| |
