 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 292 strani
...RE-PRESSED ... it is of greatest toncernment ... to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefatton: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potende of life in them to... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 292 strani
...how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do tharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but due contain a potencle of life in them to be as active as that soule was whote progeny they are; nay... | |
 | Kevin J. Vanhoozer - 2009 - 502 strani
...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...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 creature, God's image;... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 strani
...trip about him at command. 7456 'Arcades' Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica 1 Pericles This world to me is but a ceaseless storm...Whirring me from my friends. 10442 Richard II The pure was whose progeny they are. 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 strani
...Milton has no quarrel with the proposition that the state should 'have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors' (YP 1: 491, 494, 531, 560, 569). Milton, however, posits an exchange in which a stationer is asked... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 414 strani
...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 ; and he bore the scrutinizing... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 strani
...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 living intellect that bred... | |
 | John Durham Peters - 1999 - 308 strani
...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... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - 340 strani
...the office of books, to produce these grand results. "For books," to use the lofty periods of Milton, "are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a...them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are—nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 strani
...classic defenses of a free press. "I deny not," he wrote, "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. . . . For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active... | |
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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. 
