 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 576 דפים
...AND GAZETTE, APRIL 4— SEPT. 25, VOL. XXIII. л>» ИХ < " Books are not absolutely (leail 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... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 דפים
...deadly maim inflicted on all sound learning. Milton well said, — " It is of greatest concern to the commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as individuals." A love of chaste composition, it is greatly to be feared, cannot readily return: our... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 דפים
...from this sublime treatise : — " I deny not," says he, " but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 דפים
...of converting what was intended to be a curb, into a screen and protection from punishment. ment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 דפים
...ecclesiastical and royal critics. " I deny not," says Milton, " but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 דפים
...suggest hints, rather than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 דפים
...suggest hints, rather than supply ideas ; they must be, as Milton says, " Not absolutely dead things, but contain a potency of life in 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 דפים
...from this sublime treatise : — " I deny not," says he, " but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye...sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books arc' not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul... | |
 | 1838 - 514 דפים
...speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, recognizes it to be a matter " of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors." And this is precisely the course we do not pursue ; if a book has any cleverness, it is sure to get... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 דפים
...attained that wise men look for.* LIBELS. I DENY not, but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye...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... | |
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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. 
