 | Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 360 pages
...learning thus entombed — with whatever departments of human knowledge such volumes deal — that " Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that livingintellect that bred them." * I have introduced this episode of an Old-Church Library to mark... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 540 pages
...raison même, en sorte que ce n'est « point une vie qu'ils égorgent, mais une immor« talité1. » 1. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as tjiose fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...well as men ; and therefore to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for 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 vial, the honest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Annie Kane - Blind - 1867 - 252 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 590 pages
...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...that living intellect that bred them. I know they are an lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down... | |
 | Robert Cowe - 1868 - 522 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | Alexander Martin Sullivan - Ireland - 1868 - 310 pages
...as that foule was whose progeny they are. Nay, they doe preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, that being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men." Gentlemen, Milton tells... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - Political Science - 1993 - 244 pages
...as 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 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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz - Fiction - 1992 - 360 pages
...1989 PART TWO Cultural & Sociopolitical Perspectives pau I wilson Living Intellects: An Introduction 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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
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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. 
