 ... 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. I...  The Choice of Books - Стр. 199авторы: Charles Francis Richardson - 1905 - Страниц: 375Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - 2009 - Страниц: 502
...interaction. H. Richard Niebuhr2 He that owneth his words and actions, is the Author. Thomas Hobbes5 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. . . . As good kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - Страниц: 502
...aftive as that foule was whofe progeny they are; nay they do prefcrve as in a violl the pureft efficacic and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously prodcftive,as thofe fabulous Dragons tcethjand being fown up and down, may chance to fpring up armed... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - Страниц: 1160
...reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. Arapagltlca (1644] 7 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | Michael Heim - 1999 - Страниц: 324
...Omar Khnyyam. trans. Edward FitzGerald Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...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;... | |
 | John Durham Peters - 1999 - Страниц: 308
...any possibility of interaction. Socrates would perhaps agree with John Milton, with a shiver, that "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them."" Here the Phaedrus foreshadows the blossoming of a wide array of discourses in the second half of the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - Страниц: 414
...unborn, and who though dead was yet to speak with him in those written memorials which, says Milton, " contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are," he seemed to himself to be touching the electric chain of his own ancestry... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - Страниц: 288
...said to amount to a belated transformation of Milton's argument in Areopagitica, that 'books . . . 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... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - Страниц: 340
...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,...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."t The particular works... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - Страниц: 340
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."t The particular works... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - Страниц: 478
...Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves, as well as men. . . . For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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;... | |
| |
