 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 sider
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 sider
...where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so...other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 sider
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...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. Books... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - 306 sider
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...The mere materials with which Wisdom builds/ Till smooth 'd, and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems (' enrich. Knowledge,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 sider
...without his oooks. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Know ledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men...mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, '1 ill smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted to ill place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 246 sider
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t ' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much : Wisdom is humble that he knows no more,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 sider
...moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his bocks. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times...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... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 sider
...the same thing, but Cowper, in the following lines, accurately and elegantly shews the difference ; " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own." To aim at precision in writing, will always be found conducive to the intellectual improvement of the... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 sider
...head,—in a word, between wisdom and knowledge. Cowper has very accurately marked the distinction. " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere material with which Wisdom builds, 'Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 sider
...as a divinity." L. LOCKE. " Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft'times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...The mere materials with which Wisdom builds ; Till smooth"d, and squar'd, and fitted to its place, Does hut encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
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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. 
