unwiser

Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go; but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for money -- Windsor Georges and such like!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

As it turned out, I never did an unwiser thing; but I had no means of knowing how unwise it was, and I was affected by her tears and protestations.

In Direst Peril David Christie Murray

Palmerston's declaration, than which no unwiser one was ever made, touching the insanity of the man who should seek to understand the enigma of the

The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Various 1888

Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds.

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

"Ever since we have been at Stapi, my mind has been almost solely occupied with the grave question which has been submitted to me by yourself -- for nothing would be unwiser and more inconsistent than to act with imprudence."

Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

There are a many folk about me, and they foul, and greedy, and hard; and my spirit is fierce, and my body feeble; and I am set to tasks that I would not do, by them that are unwiser than I; and smitten I am by them that are less valiant than I; and I know lack, and stripes, and divers misery.

Wood Beyond the World William Morris 1865

Endowed with all their gifts, ... to the unwiser son

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

It has been thought strange, but there ARE nations in which the numerous unwiser part wishes to be ruled by the less numerous wiser part.

The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851

No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and suchlike?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838