 | 1857 - 584 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that evil was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as...that living intellect that bred them. I know they VOL. XXVII. NO. LIV. T are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 330 pages
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain n progeny of life in them, to be as active аз that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as...extraction of that living intellect that bred them." Books have always been deemed a power; the press is termed a fourth estate; and yet art, pictorial... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 732 pages
...can not laugh at you." Their nobler laudation by Milton is familiar to all who speak our tongue. " Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 pages
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1859 - 556 pages
...learning thus entombed — with whatever departments of human knowledge such volumes deal — that "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...extraction of that living intellect that bred them."* CHARLES KÍÍIOHT. CANDLE MAKING. IT must be a very young man who does not remember that most noisome... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ;1 and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1028 pages
...never grumble ; if you are ignorant, they cannot langh at you." — RICHARD Dl BDRT: Philobiblian. " x+d t . $ y kR L " pw uP R -\@4 : W K< $ > ! ,2 Fbge ʣ < $ p was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; * and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the... | |
 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - Blind - 1860 - 384 pages
...life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Nay, they do preserve, as in vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other... | |
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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. 
