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. Annual Report - Pagina 34door American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Michael Heim - 1999 - 324 pagina’s
...your Tears wash out a Word of it. —The Riibaiyat of Omar Khnyyam. trans. Edward FitzGerald Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny...as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of thai living intellect that bred Ihem — Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Ood's image;... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pagina’s
...wise men look for. Arapagltlca (1644] 7 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. AreoiMiyit it'll ( i (144) 8 As good almost kill a man as kill... | |
| Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 268 pagina’s
.... contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are', that they 'preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them', and that 'a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose... | |
| Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 pagina’s
...pamphlets are transformed into a glorification of spawning ideas: "For books . . . contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...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... | |
| Richard Moon - 2000 - 330 pagina’s
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... [U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills... | |
| Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - 340 pagina’s
...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,...extraction of that living intellect that bred them! I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being... | |
| Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - 340 pagina’s
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them! I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being... | |
| Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 pagina’s
...themselves, as well as men. . . . 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 — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
| Sir William Osler - 2001 - 416 pagina’s
...propounded. RICHARD DE BURY, Philobiblon 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica OSLER STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE of libraries in this 1901 address at the dedication... | |
| Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
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