 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
 | Wallace M. Alston, Michael Welker - 2007 - Broj stranica: 470
...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. ... [It is] as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - Broj stranica: 256
...Best Self and you will hear it say: We are all one." "For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and 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... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - Broj stranica: 258
...Self and you will hear it say: We are all one." "For books are not absolutely dead things, but...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and 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... | |
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