 | Michel de Montaigne - 1800 - 318 páginas
...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 - 1806 - 234 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1821 - 556 páginas
...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 - 1822 - 534 páginas
...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 - 1824 - 584 páginas
...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 - 1828 - 416 páginas
...wiser, as well as more virtuous, for • " Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge...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 - 1830 - 516 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1833 - 348 páginas
...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 truth of these sentiments you will discover in due time. But you see I am tedious and pedantic.... | |
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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,... 
