 | British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 7. Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepared,... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 páginas
...more extensively useful, because they are more intimately connected with the business oflife. " " For not to know at large of things remote From use obscure...before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." If it be desirable to encourage men to cultivate their minds, and to open to them the fountains of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 páginas
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, 173. be lowly wise :] Noli 193. That which before us lies altum sapere. Hume. in daily life,] Shadowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 páginas
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, 173. be lowly wise .•] Noli 193. That which before us lies altum sapere. Hume. in daily life,] Shadowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...wam'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote, From u^e obscure and subtle, but to know That which before...daily life. Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 352 páginas
...the dinner, being expressly confined to the " Memoirs of a Haunch of Mutton.'" WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Lost. " WHEN I look round upon the material world," says a Pagan writer, " and observe the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...soft with the smooth air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above. but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom, what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. Joy thou In what he gives to thee, this paradise And thy... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 páginas
...the dinner, being expressly confined to the " Memoirs of a Haunch of Mutton." WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but to know Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Z»st. That which before us lies in daily life, " WHEN I look round... | |
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 páginas
...remarkable. JOSEPH, (by Bitaube). A charming work. The HENRIADE. Superb. Canto \ Praties of Useful —Not to know at large of things remote From use,...daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractis'd,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 596 páginas
...SEARCH OF A WIFE. COMPBtHENDINO OBSERVATIONS ON DOMESTIC HABITS AND MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS. Tor not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, í • the prime wisdom. MILTON. PREFACE. WHO I quitted home on a little excursion in the spring of... | |
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That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom... 
