 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 páginas
...or of the activity of the human intellect to whatever subjects it might be applied. • No ; to him Ignorance is the curse of God; Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. But what is there in those pages ? There is the very antidote we need to guard and to strengthen our... | |
 | Ranley - 1864 - 226 páginas
...voice at any time, or seen his shape, and whose ways are • And, in 2nd Part of Henry VI. he tells us, Ignorance is the curse of God ; Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven !" Reporter. past finding out ! A belief, Mr. Chairman, as presumptuous and impious in Man, as it is... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 páginas
...bed." His children were reared in profound ignorance, yet his partisans ask us to believe that he wrote that Ignorance is the curse of God; Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. He was never a manager of a theater, and the particulars concerning him in this summary may all be... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1873 - 372 páginas
...revenge is no valour, but to bear." (And this in an age when every gentleman wore a sword.) " Seeing ignorance is the curse of God ; Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." And read too, his plea for Peace, — Hen. V., act 5, scene 2, — where the Duke of Burgundy in most... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1982 - 562 páginas
...daydreaming reader from lingering in the garden too long, a carving over the librarian's door exhorts: "Ignorance is the curse of God; Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to Heaven" (109). The east Librarian's Courtyard is balanced on the west side of the Sterling building by a smaller... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 páginas
...Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks, Because my book preferr'd me to the king: And, seeing rth Editions Unless you be possest with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me: This tongue hath... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 páginas
...Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks, Because my book preferr'd me to the King; And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits You cannot but forbear to murther me. (4.7.71-76) Where... | |
 | George V. Tudhope - 1996 - 160 páginas
...Bacon anticipated in Freemasonry in the sixth and last part of his "Great lnstallation." lgnorance is the curse of God. Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. — SHAKESPEARE And, as Bacon said: // we have spoken the truth, the voice of nature will cry it up,... | |
 | John Y Cole, Henry Hope Reed - 1997 - 330 páginas
...principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. — Proverbs 4:7 Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. —Shakespeare, Henry IV. Part II They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts. Man... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 1998 - 180 páginas
...associated with the Holy Grail of knowledge and illumination, summarized by Shakespeare when he wrote that ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven (2 Henry /1.' iv, 7). We only grow wings of hght and fly with them when we have reached the state of... | |
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And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me. 
