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Poems - Page 167
by William Cowper - 1787
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The Englishman's library [ed. by E. H. L.].

Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...of ancient Greece, he would have been worshipped as a divinity." L. LOCKE. " Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft'times no connexion. 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...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, kud learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. 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...
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Hints to Parents ...: No. I[-VI], Issues 1-6

Education - 1825 - 498 pages
...into the mind, inasmuch as wisdom is more rare and desirable than knowledge." " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own." The method is widely different from that which is too frequently...
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The Task

William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other meri-j Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...And Learning wiser grow without his books. , Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oftimes no connexion. 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...
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Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most ...

Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. 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...
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The Poems of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...a useful lesson to the head,. , . And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. 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...
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Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of ..., Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 340 pages
...without being wise, and especially without being " wise unto salvation." " — Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, " Have oft-times no connexion....dwells " In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; " Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. " Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, " The mere materials...
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Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of ..., Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 342 pages
...without being wise, and especially without being " wise unto salvation." ' — Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, ' Have oft-times no connexion....dwells ' In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; ' Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. ' Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, ' The mere materials...
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