 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...For (to use the language of 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 ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...My lady sweet, arise ; Arise, arise. 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 as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 pages
...(speaking merely of human productions.) " 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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | 1838 - 514 pages
...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 purpose... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...shall nae want your reward in heaven.' BOOKS. 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 phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...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 was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
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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. 
