 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.  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - 第 188 頁1826完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 頁
...price 5s. 6d. neat cloth. " Books are not absolutely Head things, but do contain a potencie of lile in them* to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve, « in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that l>rnl them. — Mauy... | |
 | 1857 - 602 頁
...thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found " a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 頁
...I2mo. price 5s. <;<). neat cloth. 1* Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, ihey do preserve, 'u in H viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | 626 頁
...wait on your proceedings. — A/iltun. Books ire not absolutely dead things, hut do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose priigeny they ate : nay, tliey do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of tliatliving... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 頁
...until his death, 1674; and to use his own words, his " 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." But in spite of all his mental efforts, and the energy and skill of Cromwell and his army,t the Commonwealth... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 頁
...imprison, and do sharpest 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 whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 頁
...such "do contain a potency within them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 頁
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul e horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from...the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monar rigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 頁
...monuments of human state as these ?J »0 [** Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 頁
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do towards him, but be esteemed as that star in tho revelation, ca »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
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