 | 1847 - 600 str.
...preserve it, except it become a living principle. And here we are reminded of the words of Coleridge, ' to restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action.' Let us act as if our God were indeed our Governor ; let us not trust in the wisdom of the wise, nor... | |
 | Heroine - 1845 - 154 str.
...common-place maxims, — that of reflecting on them in direct reference to our own state and conduct, to our own past and future being. To restore a common-place truth to its uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action ; but to do this you must have reflected on... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1847 - 624 str.
...preserve it, except it become a living principle. And here we are reminded of the words of Coleridge, ' to restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action.' Let us act as if our God were indeed our Governor ; let us not trust in the wisdom of the wise, nor... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 502 str.
...them in direct reference to our own state and conduct, to our own past ind future being. APHORISM m. To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon...translate it into action. But to do this, you must reflected on its truth. APHORISM IV. Leighton and Coleridge. It i» the advice of the wise man, " Dwell... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 398 str.
...them in direct reference to our own state and conduct, to our own past and future being. APHORISM III. To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action Bat to do this, you must have reflected on its truth APHORISM IV. LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE. It is the... | |
 | 1857 - 600 str.
...lamented Hewitson begins his memoir thus: — " To restore a common-place truth," writes Mr. Coleridge, " to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action." Walking with God is a very common-place truth. Translate this truth into action, how lustrous it becomes... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1864 - 650 str.
...which have become so familiar as to have lost their power to interest or impress our minds, he adds, " To restore a commonplace truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action" • (493.) There is an additional point of analogy between our Natural and our Religious education... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1866 - 712 str.
...utterance than that of Coleridge, in one of his introductory aphorisms in his "Aids to Reflection:" "To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action." What we can see has power. The Sacrament of the Supper takes advantage of this principle, and embodying... | |
 | 1875 - 652 str.
...significance It is simply the translation of possibilities into acts. It was said, by Coleridge, that ' to restore a commonplace truth to its first uncommon...lustre, you need only translate it into action.'" It is in making experimental that which we have held doctrinally, that the whole vigour of our spiritual... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1872 - 414 str.
...in direct reference to our own state i aid conduct, to our own past and future being. APHORISM III. To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon...need only translate it into action. But to do this, vou must have reflected on its truth i APHORISM IV. LEIGHTON AND COLERIDGE. Jt is the advice of the... | |
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There is one sure way of giving freshness and importance to the most common-place maxims — that of reflecting on them in direct reference to our own state and conduct, to our own past and future being. APHORISM III. To restore a common-place truth to... 
