 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.  The North British Review - Strona 1751857Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - Liczba stron: 494
...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. ... as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills... | |
 | Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - Liczba stron: 221
...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 the living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - Liczba stron: 173
...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', Areopagitica (1644), p. 4. [modernised spelling] the roles... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - Liczba stron: 368
...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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Michael Gorman - 2005 - Liczba stron: 224
...absolutely dead things, but they 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 of that living intellect that bred them. — John Milton, Areopagitica John Milton wrote his Areopagitica... | |
 | Nicole Howard - 2005 - Liczba stron: 171
...are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be active as that soul 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, 1643 address to Parliament This volume... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2005 - Liczba stron: 300
...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 ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - Liczba stron: 873
...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 ofthat living intellect that bred them." Swift's personified... | |
 | Haig A. Bosmajian - 2006 - Liczba stron: 233
...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" (5). Then, in condemning the Church's destruction of books,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2006 - Liczba stron: 486
...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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
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