 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, "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." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophilos, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...treatise: " I deny not 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; and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...deny not," says he, " but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as...progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to^ have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as...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... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye hosv books demean themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafier to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...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... | |
 | 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 858
...ink. And yet, a soul is here. ' For books are not absolutely dead things ' — so said Milton — ' but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Many a man lives, a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...in 1644. I deny not 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 ; and thereafter to confme, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead... | |
 | 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilint eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. — MILTON. (1.) " Tfie Rich Kinsman, by SH TYNG, DD," (New- York : R. Carter & Brothers, 1855 ; 12mo.,... | |
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I deny not, 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 ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not... 
