 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 American Biblical Repository - Sivu 4101843Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1841 - 508 sivua
...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. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 sivua
...so little profound thought, so little argument, so little even of what we should most expect to fmd, bursts of feeling, a rush of startling imagery, an...who could charm Dr. Franklin and Garrick, Hume and Doddridge, Bolingbroke, John Newton, Chesterfield and the rabble of Moorfields, must have had a virtue... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 sivua
...them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they arc. 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 lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 sivua
...them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, ihey do preserve, 'u in H viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many n man lives a burden to the earth ; hut a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit,... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sivua
...TKerrT to be as active as that soulwas whose progeny Alicy are ; nay, thfy do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extrac\tion of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively^ and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sivua
...in them, to be as active as that soul 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 lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 sivua
...them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book... | |
 | 1847 - 486 sivua
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit, treasured up to a life beyond life ; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." They live with each succeeding age, and become the fountains of truth and knowledge to all mankind.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sivua
...in them, to be as active as that soul »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, d waters in which it falleth so bitter, that men tasting thorn die thereof. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragona' teeth ; and being... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 sivua
...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 lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being... | |
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