 | William Logan Fisher - Sabbath - 1845 - 216 pages
...give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge...in minds attentive to their own. ****** Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." COWPER'S TASK. Connected... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection....other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...VIRTUE. KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. — Cowper. KNOWLEDGE and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — More. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 pages
...quench it,) here shines on me the same." An illustration of Apostrophe. Ex. 14. " Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection....The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squar"d, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | New England - 1846 - 318 pages
...reiueui ui uu-; mu.tn, wts may assent to the poet's value of each :— 's estimate of the relative "Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to his place,— Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud, that he has learned so... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Biography & Autobiography - 1846 - 314 pages
...disparagement of the latter, we may assent to the poet's estimate of the relative value of each : — "Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to his place, — Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud, that he has learned so... | |
 | Charles Bricket Haddock - Social sciences - 1846 - 604 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without its books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge...Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials from which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Biography & Autobiography - 1846 - 312 pages
...disparagement of the latter, we may assent to the poet's estimate of the relative value of each : — "Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom huilds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to his place, — Does but encumber what it seems to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...learning wiser grow without his books. 'edge and Wisdom, far from being one. Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squared, and fitted tc its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...opposition gives opinion strength." " There is in souls a sympathy with sounds." " Knowledge and wisdom far from being one Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge...other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own." " All we behold is miracle." " Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is GOD." " Many a crime... | |
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds,... 
