 | 1831 - 424 pagina’s
...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. As good almost kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pagina’s
...as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they doe preserve as in a violl the purest cfficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred...sown; up and down may chance to spring up armed men. * * * * A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pagina’s
...absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul «..a whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extractan of that living intellect that bred them. — MILTOX. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pagina’s
...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...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. LICENSERS OF THE PRESS. LEST some should persuade ye, lords and commons, that these arguments of learned... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pagina’s
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pagina’s
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency o! life in them tii be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial,...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know that they are as livingly and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; anil... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pagina’s
...active as that soul was whose progeny they aie; nay, they do preserve as in a viull the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. * * * A good book is... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pagina’s
...active as that soul was whose progeny they ate; nay, they do preserve as in a yioll the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. ' * " A good book is... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagina’s
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life." — " They preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." It is astonishing that these books should not in our time have been appreciated by the people, and... | |
 | 1835 - 570 pagina’s
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul who?e progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction uf that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as... | |
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... 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. 
