 | Michel de Montaigne - 1800 - 318 pages
...Have oft-times no conneftion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wifdom in minds attentive to their own; Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd fo much ; \Vifdom is humble that he knows no more.' — TASK. ESSAY 19. ON EDUCATION. Addreffed... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge 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 an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...builds, Till smoothed and squared and 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 are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Hold an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge 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 an unthinking... | |
 | William Withering - Medicine - 1822 - 534 pages
...and illustrating that . . " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion: Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Hence, after meditating on the discoveries and sublime speculations of a great astronomer, and sweeping... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...builds, 'Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich : Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Task, Book 6. CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF DIFFERENT WRITERS OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT: THE ARRANGEMENT... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1828 - 416 pages
...ashamed of being Christians : they deserve to be esteemed wiser, as well as more virtuous, for • " Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more *." There is such a thing as being " sapienter indoctus," as Gregory the Great said of St. Benedict... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and 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. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | Village Pastor - Christian life - 1831 - 206 pages
...being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men j Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge...so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 8* 90 ADVICE TO A It is surprising, how few persons are in the habit of attending to the operations of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and 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. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
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... 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, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,... 
