...thoughts the best way. SIR W. TEMPLE. BOOKS are not absolutely dead fixings, but doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they ate; nay, they do preserve as in a yioll the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect...

...deadly maim inflicted on all sound learning. Milton well said, — " It is of greatest concern to the commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as individuals." A love of chaste composition, it is greatly to be feared, cannot readily return: our...

...thoughts tho best way. SIK W. TEMPLB. BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, hut doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whoso progeny they arc; nay, they do preserve as in a viol I the purest eflicacie and extraction of...

...and of converting what was intended to be a curb, into a screen and protection from punishment. ment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant...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...

...the bench of ecclesiastical and royal critics. " I deny not," says Milton, " but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth...vigilant eye how books 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...

...pleasure of quoting one passage from this sublime treatise : — " I deny not," says he, " but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth,...sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books arc' not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul...

...Milton, in his eloquent speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, recognizes it to be a matter " of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth,...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors." And this is precisely the course we do not pursue ; if a book has any cleverness, it is sure to get...

...is accustomed to the reflection that "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"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on...

...bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.* LIBELS. I DENY not, but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth,...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...

...never forgot his Moravian training at the Padagogium of Niesky. ART. XII.— QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eve how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest...