 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.  The Saturday Magazine ... - Page 141834Full view - About this book
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...confine, impri' fon, and do fharpefl juftice on them as malefactors : For Books are not abfolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as adtive as that foule was whofe progeny they are; are ; nay they do preferve as in. a, violl the pureft... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...existence. 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... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...But if books inculcate evil and pernicious principles, either in taste or morals, " since they doc 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 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...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... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pages
...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 preserve as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pages
...greatest concernment to have a vigilant eye 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... | |
 | 1857 - 878 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...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... | |
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