 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...entrailles I. Forbooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, te be as active as that soul whose progeny they are;...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons1 teeth ; and being sown up « de tant de vieux et bons auteurs par une violation « pire que... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 pages
...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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 pages
...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, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pages
...parfait ces catalogues et ces index « expurgatoires. qui fouillent à travers les entrailles 1. Forbooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul -#hose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ;l and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 360 pages
...learning thus entombed — with whatever departments of human knowledge such volumes deal — that " Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency...a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that livingintellect that bred them." * I have introduced this episode of an Old-Church Library to mark... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 540 pages
...en sorte que ce n'est « point une vie qu'ils égorgent, mais une immor« talité1. » 1. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency...they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as tjiose fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 pages
...men ; and therefore 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, as in a vial, the honest efficacy and extraction... | |
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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. 
