 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pages
...press. "I deny not," he wrote, "but that it is of greatest concernment in the 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 a potency of life in them to be as active... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 pages
...censorship as gun control: I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves,...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...WORDSWORTH. ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and coin' monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2001 - 416 pages
...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...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...hut that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilam eye how hooks demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to...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... | |
 | Gary A. Olson - 2002 - 202 pages
...2 1 For Stanley and Jane who have contributed immeasurably to the intellectual life of the academy Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. —John Milton His... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 pages
...which the venerated author perpetually inheres. In a different polemical context Milton had argued "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 pages
...is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice upon them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things . . . The figurative animation of... | |
 | Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Timothy Raylor - 2002 - 400 pages
...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 violi the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.'38 Milton hesitates... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and civil wisdom. I deny not but thai it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves,...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that Irving intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
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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. 
