 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
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 pàgines
...for 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...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 Hamilton - 1857 - 494 pàgines
...for 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...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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | 1857 - 632 pàgines
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that evil was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve,...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pàgines
...forms, " 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 mtellect that bred them." Books have always been deemed a power ; the press is termed... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pàgines
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain u progeny of life in them, to be as active as that evil 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 those... | |
 | 1856 - 732 pàgines
..." 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 of that living intellect that bred them. As good kill a man... | |
 | Richard BALL (of Taunton.) - 1857 - 112 pàgines
...for 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 ma vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."-)In the midst... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 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...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... | |
 | 1858 - 664 pàgines
...another sense than that of Milton, is " the precious life blood of a master spirit,'' and " preserves. as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred it." We doubt whether a mind like that of Dr. B., so single and intense, could have written successfully... | |
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