 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
 | Max Ring - 1868 - 330 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 dragons' teeth; and being... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1979 - 422 sivua
...in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are: nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image;... | |
 | Denis Lane - 1990 - 290 sivua
...life 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 vigourously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being... | |
 | Patrick Sims-Williams - 2005 - 474 sivua
...life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are, nay ... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them'. 19 A student of Aldhelm's at Malmesbury called /Ethilwald described the books which two Anglo-Saxons... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1993 - 244 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 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... | |
 | North American Serials Interest Group - 1993 - 350 sivua
...life 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" (Areopagitica). The medieval book, sturdily bound to protect its contents from the ravages of time,... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 sivua
...clause breaks with this tradition in equating "soul" with "intellect": books "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The transition to the second part is cautiously worded: "And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 sivua
...of life in them to be 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 dragon's teeth and being sown... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1995 - 234 sivua
...regulation of publishing, John Milton treats books as pure entities able to "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." He describes them as "reason itself," the "image of God, as it were, in the eye" (720). Where books... | |
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