 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 pages
...d< contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nny, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of thnt living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...brains.— WB Clulow. 456. contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial,...lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...least brains.— WB Clulow. contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial,...lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 1 sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect which bred them." " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | 1855 - 452 pages
...absolutely dead things, but they contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them:" but still, to no modern orator, perhaps, was the personal appearance... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...know they are as lively and as vigorously productive .43 those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.... | |
 | Walter Colton, Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 390 pages
...life in them, to te as active as that soul was whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve, as tn & vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." MILTON. PREFACE. IN launching this volume upon the wave of public opinion, the publishers deem it proper... | |
 | E. Winchester Reynolds - 1856 - 326 pages
...life in them; . . they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons'teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."—MILTON. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: HK LEWIS, 15, GOWER STREET, NORTH. 1856. THE INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial,...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other... | |
 | Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
