 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pagine
...justice on them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do cond P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that...whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pagine
...justice on them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do ecu** P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are: najr, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pagine
...well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things ; but do...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pagine
...execute sharp justice upon them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but they have a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they contain, as in a vial, the purest extract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. They are... | |
 | 1857 - 878 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1818 - 762 pagine
...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 of the living intellect that bred them." In the cose of... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pagine
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that Sou'.e was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pagine
...confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not abso^ lutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them...progeny they are : nay, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 pagine
...justice on them as malefactors. For 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."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed further with these authorities. The universal sentiment... | |
 | 1824 - 592 pagine
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