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To Know of. To take cognizance of; to examine : 
Fair Hermia, quefticn your detires. 
Know of your youth, examine well 3'our blood, 
Whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice, 
You can endure the livery of a nun. 
For ay to be in fnady cloifter mew’d. Shakefpeare. 
KNOW-NOT-WHAT, / Something inexpreffible : 
Of thee, kind boy, I afk no red and white 
To make up my delight; 
No odd becoming graces. 
Black eyes, and little hnow-not-zokats in faces. Suckling. 
KNOW'ABLE, adj. Cognofcible ; poflible to be dif- 
covered or underliood.—’Tis plain, that under the law of 
works is comprehended alfo the law of nature, knowable by 
reafon, as well as the law given by Mofes. Locke. 
KNQW'ER, f. One who has lkill or knowledge.—If 
we look on a vegetable, and can only fay ’tis cold and dry, 
we are pitiful knowers. Glanville. 
KNOW'ING, adj. Skilful; well inftruiffed ; remote from 
ignorance.—All animals of the fame kind, which form a 
fociety, are more knowing than others. Addifon. 
You have heard, and with a knozoing ear. 
That he, which hath our noble father fain, 
Purfu’d my life. Shakefp. Hamlet. 
Confcious ; intelligent : 
Could any but a knowing prudent Caufe 
Begin luch notions and affign fuch laws? 
If the great Mind had form’d a different frame. 
Might not your wanton wit the fyftern blame ? Blackmore. 
KNOW'ING,/. Knowledge.'—Let him be fo entertain’d 
as fuits gentlemen of your knowing to a Itranger of his 
quality. Shakefpeare. 
KNOW'INGLY, adv. With fkill; with knowledge.— 
They who were rather fond of it than knowingly admired it, 
might defend their inclination by their reafon. Dryden .— 
To the private duties of the clofet he repaired, as often 
as he entered upon any bufinefs of confequence: I fpeak 
knowingly. Alterbury. 
KNOW'ING NESS,/ Knowledge; fkill; underftanding. 
KNOWLEDGE, f. Certain perception ; indubitable 
apprehenfion.— Knowledge, which is the higheft degree of 
the fpeculative faculties, confifts in the perception of the 
trotlv of affirmative or negative proportions, Locke. —See 
the articles Logic and Metaphysics. 
Do but fay fo me what I fhould do. 
That in your knowledge may by me be done. 
And I am preft unto it. Shakefpeare. 
Learning; illumination of the mind : 
Ignorance is the curfe of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heav’n. Shakefp. 
-Skill in any thing.—Shipmen that have knowledge of the 
fea. Kings. —Acquaintance with any fad orperfon.—The 
dog ftraight fawned upon his mafter for old knowledge. Sid- 
■ney. —Cognizance ; notice.—Why have I found grace in 
thine eyes, that thou fhouldeft take knowledge of me, feeing 
X am a ftranger ? Ruth ii. io. 
A ftate’s anger fhould not take. 
Knowledge either of fools or women. Ben Johnfon. 
Information ; power of knowing.—I pulled off my head- 
piece, and humbly entreated her pardon, or knowledge why 
file was cruel. Sidney. 
To KNOWLEDGE, v. a. To acknowledge; to avow. 
■not in vfe. —The prophet Hofea tells us, that God faith of 
the Jews, They have reigned, but not by me ; which 
proveth plainly, that there are governments which God 
doth not avow; for, though they be ordained by his fecret 
providence, yet they are not knowledged by his revealed 
wijl. Bacon's Holy War. 
KNOWLES (Thomas, D. D.),a very refpeftable divine 
pi the eftablifhed church, was born at Ely in the year 
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1724; and received his education at the grammar-fchooT 
of that place, from whence he was removed to Pembroke- 
hall, Cambridge, where he commenced B.A. in 1743, 
M. A. in 1747, and was alfo chofen fellow of that fociety. 
He became prebendary of Ely, and was leCiurer of St. 
Mary’s church for upwards of fifty years. He wrote fe- 
veral religious trails, which difeover great learning, and 
the ftyle is plain and perfpicuous. The following is a 
complete lift of them: 1. The Scripture Doctrine of the 
Exiftence and Attributes of God, in twelve Sermons, with 
a Preface in Anfwer to a Pamphlet concerning the Argu¬ 
ment d priori, z. An Anfwqr to Bifhop Clayton’s Efiay on 
Spirit; for which archbifhop Seeker conferred on him the 
degree of D.D. 3. Lord Hervey’s and Dr. Middleton’s 
Letters on the Roman Senate. 4. Obfervations on the 
Tithe-Bill. 5. Dialogue on the Teft-AcL 6. Primitive 
Chriftianity in favour of the Trinity. This was anfwered 
by Mr. Capel LofFt. 7. Obfervations on the divine Million 
of Mofes. 8. Advice to Young Clergyman, in fix Let¬ 
ters. 9. The Pafiion, a Sermon. 10. On Charity-Schools, 
on Sunday-Schools, and a Preparatory Difcourfe on Con¬ 
firmation. Fie died in Oftober 1802, aged feventy-eight 
years. 
KNOWLES (Mrs.), a literary quaker, was born in 
Staffordfliire about the year 1727. Her parents being of 
the fociety of Friends, fhe was carefully educated in fub- 
ftantial and ufeful knowledge ; but this alone could not 
fatisfy her aftive mind ; for fhe was long diftinguifhed by 
various W'orks in the polite arts of poetry, painting, and 
more efpecially the imitation of nature in needle-work. 
Some fpecimens of the latter having accidentally fallen 
under the obfervation of their majefties, they expreffed a 
wdfh to fee her. She was accordingly prefented in the fitn- 
plicity of her quaker drefs, and gracioufly received. This 
and fubfequent interviews led to her grand undertaking, 
a reprefentation of the king in needle-work, which fhe 
completed to the entire fatisfaflion of their majefties, 
though fire had never before feen any thing of the kind. 
About this time fhe had the honour to introduce her fon, 
then about five years of age, to their, majefties ; and upon 
this occafion the little fellow delivered, with fingular bold- 
nefs, the following lines, which Mrs. K. wrote for the cc~ 
cafion, and which w r e have not feen in print: 
Here, royal pair, your little quaker ftands, 
Obfcurely longing to falute your hands ; 
Young as he is, he ventures to intrude. 
And lifps a parent’s love and gratitude. 
Though with no awful fervices I’m come, 
Forbid to followi Mars’ dire thund’ring drum; 
My faith no warlike liberty hath giv’n, 
Since peace on earth fweet angels fang in heav’n. 
Yet I will ferve.my prince as years increafe, 
And cultivate the fineft arts of peace ; 
As loyal fubje&s, then, great George, by tliee. 
Let genuine quakers ftill protected be. 
Though on me as a nurfling mamma doats, 
I muff, I will, fhake off my petticoats; 
I muff, I will, affume the man this day, 
I’ve feen the king and queen ! Huzza! huzza t 
Mrs. Knowles next accompanied her hufband, a very 
refpe&able phyfician, and a rigid quaker, on a fcientitic 
tour through Holland, Germany, and France, where they 
obtained introductions to the mod diftinguifhed perfon- 
ages. Mrs. K. was admitted to the toilet of the late un¬ 
fortunate queen of France, by the particular defire of the. 
latter. The appearance of a quaker was an extraordinary 
fpeftacle to that princefs, who eagerly inquired concern¬ 
ing their tenets, and acknowledged that thefe heretics were, 
at leaft, philofophers. Mrs. K. wrote on various fubjeCls, 
philofophical, theological, and poetical. Some of her per¬ 
formances have been publifned with her name, but more 
anonymoufly ; and it is faid, that fhe modeftly retained in- 
manufeript far more than fhe fubinitted to the public. 
When 
