 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but incomber whom it seems to enrich. Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - Sabbath - 1845 - 216 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." COWPER'S TASK. Connected with the subject of the clergy, is the continued recommendation of the Sabbatarians... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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. 5. An upright minister asks what recommends a man ; a corrupt minister asks who recommends him. 6.... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...help but lead to good, and although they may occasionally bring forth some ebullitions of vanity for " Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more." Yet age and experience will correct this. In the dying words of La Place, " what we know is but little,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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. THE MILLENNIUM.2 O SCENES surpassing fable, and yet true — Scenes of accomplished bliss ! which who... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Christian life - 1845 - 264 pages
...builds, Till smoothed and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seem'd to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." I hardly know a more melancholy sight than that of one, who, puffed up with his knowledge, imagines... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 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. 5. An upright minister asks what recommends a man ; a Corrupt minister asks who recommends him. 6.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1846 - 412 pages
...grew 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.1 There is such a thing as being "sapienter indoctus," as Gregory the Great said of St. Benedict... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1846 - 416 pages
...grew 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.i There is such a thing as being " sapienter indoctus," as Gregory the Great said of St. Benedict... | |
 | New England - 1846 - 318 pages
...Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to his place,— Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud, that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more." In this matter we may give more weight to an opinion of Martin Luther's, recorded in his " Table Discourses,"... | |
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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,... 
