| 1801 - 432 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...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 is proud that... | |
| William Cowper - 1805 - 376 pages
...give an useful leflbn to the head, And learning w'.frr grow without his books. Knowledge aod wifdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge...dwells, In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wifdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mafs, The mere materials with... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.' Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; - •. \Visdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rudo unprofitable mass, The mere materials... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his hooks. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from heing one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells...in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitahle mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom huilds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted... | |
| 1809 - 596 pages
...reasonings are his own. If therefore, the distinction of the poet be just — ' Knowledge dwells In head i replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own ;' the author is plainly a wise man. At all events, we confess Ourselves refreshed by a labourer in... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...learning wiser grow without his books. • Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...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 is proud that... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge,...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times...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 is proud that... | |
| Nathaniel Potter - Medicine - 1811 - 442 pages
...practice, complying with this theory: But "Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft. times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...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... | |
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