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The Saturday Magazine - Page 97
1835
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A Sketch of My Friend's Family: Intended to Suggest Some Practical Hints on ...

Agnes Sophia Semple, Mrs. Marshall, Robert Bloomfield - Education - 1812 - 648 pages
...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...
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The Sylvan Wanderer;: Consisting of a Series of Moral ..., Volumes 1-2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...tlje natural fnequalitii of /Mental ^Jofotrs ; anb on tbc Distiiutou Icttorcii Genius anb 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 to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable...
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Rural discourses

William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...be ever remembered: for, " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, " Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells " In heads replete with thoughts...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...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1846 - 612 pages
...But ever bear in mind that ' Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft time no connection : knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...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...
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Poems by William Cowper ...

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...
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Zeluca; Or, Educated and Uneducated Women: A Novel ...

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/'...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...moments. Here the heart May 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 dwelli In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge,...
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The Task

William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...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...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his hooks. Knowledge and wisdom, far from heing one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells...in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude uuprofitahle mass, The mere materials with which wisdom huilds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted...
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The Projector: A Collection of Essays, in the Manner of the ..., Volume 3

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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