 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 σελίδες
...eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, arid 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 that soul was, whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserv... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 σελίδες
...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 eontain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are: nay, they... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 σελίδες
...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...dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them te be as active as that soul was whese progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 σελίδες
...them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do cond P. wi 289. tain 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 that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 σελίδες
...eye how books domean 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 ecu** P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 σελίδες
...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 potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | 1857 - 878 σελίδες
...thought they 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 that bred... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 σελίδες
...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 them. They are... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 σελίδες
...how Bookes demeane 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 doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that Sou'.e was whose progeny they are ;... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 σελίδες
...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...active as that soul was, whose progeny they are."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed further with these authorities. The universal sentiment... | |
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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... 
