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Poems - Page 167
by William Cowper - 1787
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The church scholar's reading-book, selected from the Saturday magazine

Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...our thinking faculty. — SHARON TunHEU. KNOWLEDGE and wisdom, far from being one, Have 'oftentimes 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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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1841 - 240 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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... The Task, a Poem ...: For the Use of Schools and Academies

William Cowper - 1842 - 162 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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Ephraim Holding's homely hints to Sunday school teachers

Ephraim HOLDING (pseud. [i.e. George Mogridge.]), George Mogridge - 1843 - 206 pages
...it is possible to abound in knowledge and be yet very deficient in wisdom. " 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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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, nd Robert Chambers Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with...
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1841 - 254 pages
...discoverer. -At any rate, they should be verified by facts ; otherwise knowledge is not wisdom. . > " These, 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. Knowledge — a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, urning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with...
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Ephraim Holding's Homely Hints Chiefly Addressed to Sunday School Teachers

Old Humphrey - Christian life - 1844 - 278 pages
...it is possible to abound in know. ledge and be yet very deficient in wisdom. " 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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The Portfolio; or A collection of state papers, etc. etc ..., Volumes 4-5

Portfolio - 1844 - 766 pages
...insured — the service of " honor."t * " Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom, in minda attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Scriptural musings

Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 pages
...of one of the most elegant, as well as the most pious of our English poets, " 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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