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Poems - Page 323
by William Cowper - 1824
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1805 - 376 pages
...give an useful leflbn to the head, And learning w'.frr grow without his books. Knowledge aod wifdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge...dwells, In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wifdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mafs, The mere materials with...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: Of the Inner Temple, Esq, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 456 pages
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.' Knowledge...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; - •. \Visdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rudo unprofitable mass, The mere materials...
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Rays of Genius Collected to Enlighten the Rising Generation, Volume 1

Thomas Tomkins - 1806 - 348 pages
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pages
...lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his hooks. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from heing one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells...in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitahle mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom huilds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted...
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The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...learning wiser grow without his books. • Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that...
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Poems [ed. by J. Newton]. Illustr. with engr. from the designs of ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge,...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 is proud that...
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The Task: A Poem in Six Books

William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and...materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber ivhom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that...
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The Baltimore Medical and Philosophical Lycæum, Volume 1

Nathaniel Potter - 1811 - 442 pages
...practice, complying with this theory: But "Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft. times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own." In my history of the Influenza of 1807.* I have been led into a view of the use of emetics in that...
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