 | 1837 - 638 sivua
...forward with his memorial, in homage to the awakening prophet. For (to use the language of Milton), " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 sivua
...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 of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being... | |
 | 1838 - 514 sivua
...thoughts about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 sivua
...thoughts about books, still less to give them utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 sivua
...progeny of life iu them, to be as active as that INFIISMTE Spirit is, whose progeny they are ? that they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that Intellect DIVINE that bred them?" It were indeed much to say; but who shall gainsay it? The Bible!... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sivua
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 sivua
...dead; For where in all her walks shall study seize Such monuments of human state as these P ] (I) [ w Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 sivua
...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 viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Francis Hare - 1840 - 40 sivua
...OF EVERY MONTH, WITH THE MAGAZINES.] Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in 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... | |
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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. 
