 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 Methodist Quarterly Review - 685 페이지1860전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 페이지
...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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 414 페이지
...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... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 페이지
...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...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
 | Richard Moon - 2000 - 330 페이지
...interference from the state. Milton 1927, 4-5, regarded the printed word as the expression of reason: '[B]ooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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 that... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - 340 페이지
...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...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... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 페이지
...the antisectarian pamphlets are transformed into a glorification of spawning ideas: "For books . . . 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 - 2001 - 552 페이지
...greatest concernment in the church and coin' monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison,...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... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 페이지
...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...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... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2001 - 416 페이지
...human compacts, and without them grave judgments may not be propounded. RICHARD DE BURY, Philobiblon For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 페이지
...greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilam eye how hooks demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison...and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors, For hooks are not ahsohttely dead things, hut do contain a potency of life in them to he as active as that... | |
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