_Quotations wanted_ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--Bacon, in his Essay "Of Studies,"
has this sentence:
"And if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know
that he doth not."
which is perhaps the reference Miss Edgeworth intended.
"A world without a sun," is from Campbell's _Pleasures of Hope_, Part II.
line 24.:
"And say, without our hopes, without our fears,
Without the home that plighted love endears,
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh! what were man?--a world without a sun."