 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 páginas
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; 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 in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 páginas
...shrines of Liberty. He venerates the spirits of books; "for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 páginas
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 páginas
...and do sharpest .justice on them as malefactors : 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 in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; 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 in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 páginas
...kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. "Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 páginas
...as good almos kill a man us kill a jrood book. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good pressed on, till we reached an ample chamber, that seemed the centre of the rock. The clim a life beyond life. MILTON'S Sftuh for tlu Liberty of unlicensed Printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 páginas
...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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 páginas
...them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life iu 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... | |
 | 120 páginas
...therefore thank God and take courage ! — A LOYEE or PBUCITIVE METHODISM. JUm." REVIEWS. " A good look ia the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life." — MILTON. 1. " The Protestant Reformers, and the Reformation." — " A Leeture... | |
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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. 
