 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - Liczba stron: 666
...Parliament of England (1644). Repr. in Complete Prose Works of Milton, ed. Ernest Sirluck (1 959). 16 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. I know they are as... | |
 | Alden Smith - 1997 - Liczba stron: 244
...1984). 1. Martindale discusses a famous quotation, worth recalling here, from Milton's Areopagitica: "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." On the emphasis of... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Liczba stron: 686
...trip about him at command. 7456 'Arcades' Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica 1 Pericles This world to me is but a ceaseless storm...10442 Richard II The purest treasure mortal times aff 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - 2009 - Liczba stron: 502
...interaction. H. Richard Niebuhr2 He that owneth his words and actions, is the Author. Thomas Hobbes5 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Michael Heim - 1999 - Liczba stron: 324
...Omar Khnyyam. trans. Edward FitzGerald 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 thai living intellect that bred Ihem — Who kills a man... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - Liczba stron: 478
...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...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - Liczba stron: 292
...the antisectarian pamphlets are transformed into a glorification of spawning ideas: "For books . . . contain a potency of life in them to be as active...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... | |
 | Richard Moon - 2000 - Liczba stron: 330
...interference from the state. Milton 1927, 4-5, regarded the printed word as the expression of reason: '[B]ooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - Liczba stron: 340
...the office of books, to produce these grand results. "For books," to use the lofty periods of Milton, "are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a...potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are — nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - Liczba stron: 282
...greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and...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... | |
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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. 
