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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. "
Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Pose Works of Eminent ... - Page 64
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 555 pages
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ;1 and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 11; Volume 19; Volume 41

1859 - 690 pages
...well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malt-factors ; for hooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul waa, whose progeny they are. — -MiLTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. (1.)...
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A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pages
...grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot langh at you." — RICHARD Dl BDRT: Philobiblian. " Books t . $ y kR L " pw uP R -\@4 : W K< $ > ! ,2 Fbge ʣ < $ p was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 20; Volume 42

1860 - 712 pages
...France ; 8. Julian L'Apostat ; 4. Bulletin Bibliographique. ART. XIII.— QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. — MILTON. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. (1.) "...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 12; Volume 20; Volume 42

1860 - 716 pages
...greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselres as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison,...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. — MILTOK. I. — Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. (1.) "...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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...
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Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags

William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 pages
...life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Nay, they do preserve, as in vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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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Russell's Magazine, Volume 6

Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 pages
...absolntelv dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active n» that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a good,...
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The interviews of great men: their influence on civilization, by the author ...

Joseph Johnson - 1862 - 360 pages
...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...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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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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 in...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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