 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...judicious eulogy, let us append Milton's more modern and more eloquent laudation : ' Books,' says he, ' 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 phial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; 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." Milton did not forget that unlicensed printing might be productive of... | |
 | 1856 - 790 pages
...careful what books they read. No man can deny this. JOHN MILTON said, and he knew all about it — "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. A Good Book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured... | |
 | 1856 - 824 pages
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them oa malefactors ; for books aro not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul wat whose progeny they are." — Millón. LONDON : WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. OblPHANT AJTD SOW,... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 pages
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that evil was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as...that living intellect that bred them. I know they VOL. XXVII. NO. LIV. T are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain n progeny of life in them, to be as active аз that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as...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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 pages
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | 1856 - 732 pages
...not laugh at you." Their nobler laudation by Milton is familiar to all who speak our tongue. " 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 phial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other... | |
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... 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. 
