 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 sivua
...Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. The Task. COWFER. 161. I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. Midsummer Night's... | |
 | Hugh A. Garland - 1850 - 398 sivua
...dwells In hearts replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Know ledge is proud that he has learned 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 the unthinking... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 sivua
...Knowledge dwell* In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no moro. The Task. COWPEE. 161. I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. Midsummer Night's... | |
 | 1913 - 686 sivua
...own. Knowledße, a rude unprofitable mass. The mere materials with which wisdom builds. Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. The same idea is expressed, in different language, in ' Paradise Lost,' book vii., in Selden's ' Table... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 sivua
...pleasure, and the everlasting exercise of sighs and tears. 3. Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull. Strong without rage, without o'erflowing,...fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to eurich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 5.... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 324 sivua
...pleads her cause within the breast, • Though long rebell'd against, not yet suppress'd. — Cmoper Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. — Id, For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living strength, and unfrequented left His righteous... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1851 - 536 sivua
...smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge U proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows' no more." COWPER. That great literary and philosophical endowments may be possessed by persons, who, notwithstanding,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 sivua
...with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted toits place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much... | |
 | 1852 - 288 sivua
...— We m&y glean lcnowtedge by reading, but the chaff must be separated from the wheat by thinking. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much — wisdom is humble that he knows no more. THE BULLETIN. at St. Dutttnt of Ihul. ~ ^— ^' " Give me one who fixes his affections on God alone... | |
 | 1853 - 202 sivua
...a rude 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 to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learn' d so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. — Cowper. 11. — The twelve years of... | |
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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,... 
