 | John Owen - Skepticism - 1881 - 514 pages
...universal interest, are too often considered as so true that they lose all the life and efficiency of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the...soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.'2 i Phaidttn, 107 B. ; Rejmb. vi. 504 E. 1 Coleridge's Frietul, No. 6, p. 76. Nor, again, is... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Sermons, English - 1881 - 792 pages
...should come into the world." But yet she did not believe so as to act on the belief. Coleridge says, " Truths, of all others, the most awful and mysterious, and at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory... | |
 | 1881 - 490 pages
...interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed- ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. There is one way of giving freshness and importance to the most commonplace maxims — that... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...unsafe, uneasy ways ; but have not found what their souls desire. — Bishop Taylor. TRUTHS— Neglected. Truths of all others the most awful and mysterious, and at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as BO true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory... | |
 | Malcolm Alexander Morris, Sir Malcolm Alexander Morris - Health - 1883 - 1148 pages
...intellectual and moral efficiency, had long endured the fate of lying bed-ridden, as Coleridge expresses it, in "the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most exploded errors " — as little operative as though it formed a member of the latter class. This truth,... | |
 | Joshua Fitch - Education - 1900 - 472 pages
...others the most awful and interesting are too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bedridden in the dormitory of the...soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors9." In seeking to ascertain for ourselves what forms of instruction and discipline are really... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...others the most awful and interesting are often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the...soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. Aphorism V. — As a fruit-tree is more valuable than any one of its fruits singly, or even... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Bible - 1904 - 500 pages
...others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the...soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. APHORISM II. There is one sure way of giving freshness and importance to the most common-place... | |
 | George Worley - Bishops - 1904 - 294 pages
...respective subjects. As Coleridge puts it : " There are some truths so obvious that they are apt to lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most absurd and exploded errors ". In this case men have ceased to wonder at the originality of the conception,... | |
 | Literature - 1905 - 730 pages
...others the most awful and interesting, too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the...soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. — ST Coleridge. 17. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.... | |
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Truths of all others the most awful and mysterious, yet being at the same time of universal interest, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the life and efficiency of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side... 
