 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.  The Saturday Magazine ... - Página 141834Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 páginas
...not absolutely dead things") and with a traditional Christian term (soul): books "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." Previewing difficulties to come, however, the next clause breaks with this tradition in equating... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - 188 páginas
...assurance, expressed in his Aereopagitica: 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... | |
 | Joad Raymond - 2005 - 404 páginas
...looking for a settlement of the distractions of this Kingdom. (Perfect Weekly Account, Dec. 1648') For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain...a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are. (JM, Areopagitica, Nov. WHO read newsbooks, why, and what did they... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 páginas
...entirely different and more serious key: "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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...literature's vitality and importance: 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... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten - 1997 - 244 páginas
...identification in language that resonates with patriarchal-absolutist discourses we have been examining: "For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain...a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...Milton, ed. Ernest Sirluck (1 959). 16 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... | |
 | Alden Smith - 1997 - 244 páginas
...recalling here, from Milton's Areopagitica: "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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency e from my friends. 10442 Richard II The purest treasure mortal time are. 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 páginas
...thereafter to confine,imprifon,and do Qurpeft juftice on them as malefactors: For Books are not abfolotely dead things , but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as aftive as that foule was whofe progeny they are; nay they do prefcrve as in a violl the pureft efficacic... | |
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