From the Original Portrait in Oils, in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover,

F. Whitehead, Phar.

THE REV. THOMAS PRICE,

Carnhuanawr,

VICAR OF CWMDC, BRECONSHIRE; AND RURAL DEAN:

AUTHOR OF HANES CYMRU, ESSAYS ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL PROGRESS OF EMPIRE
AND CIVILIZATION, ETC. ETC.

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4,1555.

"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 phial, the
purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are 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.'
MILTON'S "Areopagitica." Section vi,

LLANDOVERY:

WILLIAM REES. LONDON: LONGMAN & CO.

MDCCCLIV.