 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pàgina 2691857Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1843 - 520 pàgines
...judge of such a man by the remains of his discourses will not do at all. " The books do not preserve the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The same may he said, though not perhaps with equal force, of other great orators, whose just fame... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pàgines
...a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." VOL. XLL— NO. I. From tho Westminster Bevlew. BOILING WATER— THK BOILING SPRINGS OF ICELAND. WE... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pàgines
...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 piirest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that hrcd them. Many a man lives... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 626 pàgines
...contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose priigeny they ate : nay, tliey do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of tliatliving intellect that bred llicm, — Ibid. This is true liberty, when free-born men, Having to... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pàgines
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pàgines
...contain a progeny of life in 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... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 pàgines
...such "do contain a potency within them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pàgines
...Books are 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 in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...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... | |
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