 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books...potency of life in them , to be as active as that soûl whose progeny they are ; nay, they do préserve, as in a vial, Ihe purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...the side of liberty. "Books," said he, "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 that bred them.... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...the side of liberty. " Books," said he, " 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 that bred them.... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...thereafter to confine, imprifon, and do marpeft juftice on them as malefaftors. For books are not abfolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as aftive as that foul was whofe progeny they are ; nay, they do preferve as in a vial the pureft efficacy... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and therefore to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books...things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to he as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a phial the purest efficacy... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves as 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 progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books...potency 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 efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves as 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 progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest 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,... | |
 | 1852 - 406 pages
...quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, "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." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophilos, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?... | |
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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. 
