 | Old Humphrey - 1844 - 278 strani
...wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared, and fitted to it». 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... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 strani
...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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 strani
...without o'erflowing, fulL 4. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...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.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 strani
...without o'erflowing, full. 4. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...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.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 strani
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom,1 far from being one, Have oft-times no connection : knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...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 - 1845 - 264 strani
...wisdom 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... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - 1845 - 216 strani
...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." COWPER'S TASK. Connected with the subject of the clergy, is the continued recommendation of the Sabbatarians... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 strani
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 strani
...KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. — Cowper. KNOWLEDGE and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. GOOD TEMPER. — More. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles... | |
 | 1846 - 318 strani
...which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to his place,— Does but encumber what it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud, that he has...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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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, Does but encumber... 
