 I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.  Select Prose Works - Page 180by John Milton - 1836 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 pages
...thoughts about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...further made both in religious and civil wisdom. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant...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... | |
 | 632 pages
...dreams, Be wise and tute." "For \books,"— says Ivlilton in 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... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...ever present around us." Pp. 96-97. AET. XII.— QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant...malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. —... | |
 | 1860 - 722 pages
...QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eve how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...marvellous excellence here ascribed to that treatise : " I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant...themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books arc not absolutely dead things,... | |
 | 626 pages
...affection and his hope wait on your proceedings. — A/iltun. Books ire not absolutely dead things, hut do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose priigeny they ate : nay, tliey do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of tliatliving... | |
 | 1845 - 458 pages
...Milton says, " to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves ; for books are not dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are." It is of the greatest concernment to the present and the future,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...Parliament in behalf of the Liberty of the Press. I deny not but that it is of the greatest concernment to the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve,... | |
 | 1845 - 460 pages
...Milton says, " to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves ; for books are not dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are." It is of the greatest concernment to the present and the future,... | |
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