 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 sider
...pleader, " but that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter...malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do eontain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are: nay, they... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 sider
...pleader, " but that it is of great icernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, arid do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 sider
...not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as •well as men ; and...dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them te be as active as that soul was whese progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 sider
...pleader, " but that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter...malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do cond P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 sider
...that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books domean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine,...malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do ecu** P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 sider
...but that it is of the greatest concernment in thechurch and eomnwn-wealth, to have a vigilant eye, how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter...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... | |
 | 1857 - 878 sider
...thought they thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found "a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 sider
...justice upon them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but they have a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they contain, as in a vial, the purest extract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. They are... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 sider
...is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as Men ; and thereafter to confine,...malefactors: For Books are 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,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 sider
...and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and therer after to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not abso^ lutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was,... | |
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not... 
