 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 576 pages
...thing?, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soulwho?e progeny they are; nav, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect fhat bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. (") And yet, on the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." Instruction, which is the third thing to be noticed under means of education, must always be kept strictly... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they must preserve as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." Instruction, which is the third thing to be noticed under means of education, must always be kept strictly... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...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...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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,...extraction of that living intellect that bred them .. .Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man, as kill a good Book: who kills a Man kills... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 pages
...progeny of life iu them, to be as active as that INFIISMTE Spirit is, whose progeny they are ? that they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that Intellect DIVINE that bred them?" It were indeed much to say; but who shall gainsay it? The Bible!... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...feels, with Milton, that books 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," how awful must be the conviction that even penitence for having uttered a wrong book, cannot kill its... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...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...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. LICENSERS OF THE PRESS. LEST some should persuade ye, lords and commons, that these arguments of learned... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth , and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
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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. 
