 ... 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 Life of John Milton - Pàgina 252per Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 pàgines
...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...may chance to spring up armed men.* And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 pàgines
...preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ; they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men 37.' To Berkeley, doubtless, the springing up of such ' armed men' upon the soil of Virginia, seemed... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pàgines
...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...may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pàgines
...life in them to be as active as that soul whose progey they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as rigorously productive, aa those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pàgines
...them. I know that they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teelh ; and being sown up and down , may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on thé other hand , unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pàgines
...are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up und down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book:' who kills a man... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 pàgines
...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...may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pàgines
...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...teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a roan... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pàgines
...liiem, to be as active лз that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown tip and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used,... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pàgines
...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...productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 8own up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be... | |
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