 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,...  Friends' Weekly Intelligencer - Page 1891858Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...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,...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. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...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,...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. Knowledge... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge...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. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...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,...so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...a rudo unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, H 3 15O THE TASJC. BOQK. Vr. Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,...encumber .whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud lhathehas learned so much; Wisdom is humble that heicnows no more. Books are riot seldom talismans... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...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,...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. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...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,...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber ivhom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads repleto with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge,...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
..." Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells " In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; " Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. " Knowledge...The mere 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwelli In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge,...The mere 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... | |
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