 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1848 - 54 pages
...says Coleridge, himself an example and teacher of its power, " of which every man should be master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all ?" But life is short, and labors are many and pressing : few have time, and fewer have power to learn... | |
 | James Davie Butler, George Frederick Houghton - 1849 - 122 pages
..."fully and at large appear." " There is one art," says COLERIDGE, " of which every man should be master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all 1" But life being short, and work indispensable, few persons have time to be taught without libraries... | |
 | George Peck - 1854 - 312 pages
...processes of reasoning. Coleridge says : " There is one art, of which every man should be master — the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?" And again, — " Let it not be forgotten, that the powers of the understanding and the intellectual... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...that in another, few in many, none in all. But there is one art of which every man should be master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man,...manner, there is one knowledge, which it is every man^s interest and duty to acquire, namely, self-knowledge: or to what end was man alone, of all animals,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...that in another, few in many, none in all. But there is one art of which every man should be master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all I In like manner, there is one knowledge, which it is every man's interest and duty to acquire, namely,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...none in all. But there is one art of which every man should be a master, — the art of refaction. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are...manner, there is one knowledge which it is every man's duty and interest to acquire, namely, telf-t«vieiedqc. Or Jo what end was man alone, of all animals,... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...that it is infinite moment. 16 r PART Y " THERE i« an art which every man should be master of, — the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all ? By reflection you may draw from the fleeting facts of your worldly trade a science permanent as your... | |
 | 1866 - 578 pages
...space, atid infinite in duration. There is one art of which every man should be a master — the art 01 reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? The hours of a wise man are be;n ilcd by his ideas, those of a fool by iis passions. Christian piety... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...this in another, few in many, none in all. But there is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of REFLECTION. If you are not a thinking man,...SELF-KNOWLEDGE : or to what end was man alone, of all animals, indued by the Creator with the faculty of self-consciousness ? Truly said the Pagan moralist, E cielo... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...many, none in all. But there is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of EEFLECTION. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are...SELF-KNOWLEDGE : or to what end was man alone, of all animals, indued by the Creator with the faculty of self-consciousness? Truly said the Pagan moralist, E coelo... | |
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But there is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all... 
