 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...o£ It is of greatest concernment in the church \nd commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how >«x>ka demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest ustk« on them as malefactors ; for books are rot absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...passages from his " Appeal for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing." " I do not deny but it is of the greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye Itfe books demean themselves, as well as men ; and therefore to confme, imprison, and do sharpest justice... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...parfait ces catalogues et ces index « expurgatoires, qui fouillent à travers les entrailles I. Forbooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, te be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...may fly the Babylonian woe. 143. FROM THE AREOPAOITICA. ARGUMENT TOR THE LIBERTY or THE PRESS. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the...books are not 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,... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...between me and yon. JOHN MILTON. Born, 1608. DM 1674. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIRILITIES OF THE PRESS. I DENY not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the...men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do shaipest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...one of the noblest pieces of eloquence in the language. THE VALUE OF A BOOK From Areopagitica. I DENY not but that it is of greatest concernment in the...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve,... | |
 | Anonymous - 1865 - 602 pages
...be guarded against in this coveted state of freedom : — ' I deny not,' says he, ' but it is of the greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how bookes demesne themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and . do sharpest... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the...books are not 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... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...Oh, Grave ! where is thy victory ? Oh, Death ! where is thy sting ? i47 A BOO K. (Milton.) ft DENY not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the...thereafter, to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on ^^\liP* them as malefactors, — for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny... | |
 | David Thomas - 1866 - 756 pages
...scepticism. The valuo of really good books can scarcely be overrated. Milton has truly said " that books arc not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them t»,ba as active as that soul whose progeny they KG." And Channins; asserts that wo arc to look to... | |
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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... 
