 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.  Russell's Magazine - Stranica 326uredio/la - 1860Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - Broj stranica: 188
...Aereopagitica: 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, enbalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Serge Soupel - 1995 - Broj stranica: 252
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - Broj stranica: 270
...books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in...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 sown... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - Broj stranica: 160
...come, however, the next clause breaks with this tradition in equating "soul" with "intellect": books "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The transition to the second part is cautiously worded: "And yet on the other hand, unless wariness... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1995 - Broj stranica: 234
...famous argument against the regulation of publishing, John Milton treats books as pure entities able to "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." He describes them as "reason itself," the "image of God, as it were, in the eye" (720). Where books... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - Broj stranica: 252
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potensie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - Broj stranica: 432
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - Broj stranica: 310
..."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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."35 Milton's notable reanimation of the legal discourse of censorship stems from a recognition... | |
 | Leah Sinanoglou Marcus - 1996 - Broj stranica: 284
...not ahsolutely dead things, hut doe contain a potencie of life in them to he as active as that soule was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that hred them" tC I: 297-9S), By... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - Broj stranica: 666
...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...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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