... 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.... Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ... - Page 83 by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 764 pages Full view -
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