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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. "
Russell's Magazine - Page 326
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...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 do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...absolutely 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons teeth ; and being...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, .and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons teeth ; and being...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...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...
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An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political, Volume 2

Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pages
...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 that bred them. I know they are as...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

1857 - 878 pages
...forms, 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them." Books have always been deemed a power ; the press is termed a fourth estate ; and yet art, pictorial...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 762 pages
...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 extraction of the living intellect that bred them." In the cose of...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...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 ; nay, they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 pages
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively arid vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and, being sown...
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The Baptist Magazine, Volume 17

1825 - 582 pages
...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie 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 ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...
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