...RE-PRESSED ... it is of greatest toncernment ... to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefatton: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potende of life in them to...

...how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do tharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but due contain a potencle of life in them to be as active as that soule was whote progeny they are; nay...

...interaction. H. Richard Niebuhr2 He that owneth his words and actions, is the Author. Thomas Hobbes5 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image;...

...trip about him at command. 7456 'Arcades' Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica 1 Pericles This world to me is but a ceaseless storm...Whirring me from my friends. 10442 Richard II The pure was whose progeny they are. 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills...

...Milton has no quarrel with the proposition that the state should 'have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors' (YP 1: 491, 494, 531, 560, 569). Milton, however, posits an exchange in which a stationer is asked...

...unborn, and who though dead was yet to speak with him in those written memorials which, says Milton, " contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are," he seemed to himself to be touching the electric chain of his own ancestry ; and he bore the scrutinizing...

...said to amount to a belated transformation of Milton's argument in Areopagitica, that 'books . . . contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are', that they 'preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred...

...any possibility of interaction. Socrates would perhaps agree with John Milton, with a shiver, that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them."" Here the Phaedrus foreshadows the blossoming of a wide array of discourses in the second half of the...

...the office of books, to produce these grand results. "For books," to use the lofty periods of Milton, "are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a...them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are—nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect...

...classic defenses of a free press. "I deny not," he wrote, "but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves, as well as men. . . . For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active...