 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 ページ
...do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; 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 preserv e, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 ページ
...justice on them as malefactors ; for 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 that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 ページ
...(harped justice on them as malefactors; for books are not abfoluteiy 193 dead thing*, but do Contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that foul was whofe progeny they are ; nay, they do prefcrve, as in a vial, the pureft efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - 1809 - 506 ページ
...do fharped jufticc on them as malefaâors: for books are not abfolutely dead things , but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that foul was whofe progeny they arc; nay, they do preferve as in a vial the purcft efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 ページ
...justice on them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do cond P. wi 289. tain 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 viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 ページ
...justice on them as malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do ecu** P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are: najr, they do preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 ページ
...sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; 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 viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.... | |
 | 1857 - 878 ページ
...thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found "a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 ページ
...justice on them as malefactors. For 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."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed further with these authorities. The universal sentiment... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 ページ
...no doubt. To use again the words of Milton, " 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.... | |
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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. 
