 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 Christian Teacher - Σελίδα 901841Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Sean Keilen - 2006 - 254 σελίδες
...singularity of every writer. "Books are not absolutely dead things," he observes in this regard, "but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are."42 Milton's treatment of the Circe myth extends his equivocal thinking... | |
 | Eric v.d. Luft - 2007
...Printing to the Parliament of England: 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. I know they are as... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 σελίδες
...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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | John Witte - 2007 - 25 σελίδες
...soul" into his writing. Books, therefore, "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." It is "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,... | |
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