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. Papers for teachers - Page 2991880Full view - About this book
| Nathaniel Potter - Medicine - 1811 - 442 pages
...complying with this theory: But "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." In my history of the Influenza of 1807.* I have been led into a view of the use of emetics in that... | |
| Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - Education - 1812 - 648 pages
...distinction of the Poet be remembered : — E 3 " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one Have oft times no connection: knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds conversant with their own : Knowledge is proud that he has gained so much, Wisdom is humble that he... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...Abilitiesand Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads repleto with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive...unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom huilds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Dois hut incumbi r whom it scrim t' enrich.... | |
| William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...like salt which has * The distinction between knowledge and wisdom should be ever remembered: for, " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, " Have oft-times...materials with which wisdom builds ; " Till smooth'd and sijuur'cl and fitted to its place, " Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. " Knowledge is proud... | |
| 1846 - 612 pages
...world to come. " But ever bear in mind that ' Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft time no connection : knowledge dwells In heads replete...other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.' " Read the whole of Cowper's admirable distinction between the two. I will not tell you where to find... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...far from being one, 1 Have oft times no counexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thonghts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rnde nuprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom bnild*, Till smooth'd, and sqnar'd, and... | |
| William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwelli In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom...materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted to it's place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that... | |
| 1815 - 422 pages
...no creature of any reflection but must wish to remind a modern female that ' Knaw ledge, a rude and unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich ;' Yet such proficients/'... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...wiser grow without his hooks. Knowledge and wisdom, far from heing one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude uuprofitahle mass, The mere materials with which wisdom huilds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 420 pages
...perhaps none but themselves will ever think it worth while to investigate. THE PROJECTOR. N° 88. " Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...other men : Wisdom in minds attentive to their own." COWPER. November 1808. " TO THE PROJECTOR. " SIR, ALTHOUGH I have been a reader of your lucubrations... | |
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