...OBSERVATIONS ON DOMESTIC HABITS AND MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS For not to know at large of tilines remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wiedom. MILTQX. PREFACE. Win x I qnittcd home ona little excursion in the spring of this present year,...

...I EM: i MM Superb. Canto £tfrraries of Useful — Not to know at large of things remote From ate, obscure, and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Ts the prime wisdom : wjiat is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in...

...rather too far, was glad to compromise, and for the sake of peace conformed to her rules. CHAPTER IX. That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime...most concern. Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seelf : Therefore from this high pitch let us descend • . A lower flight, and speak of things at...

...Lane. MUSEUM, REGISTER, JOURNAL, AND GAZETTE. No. 316.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1829. [Price :»c/. " To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised,...

...appropriate use, and each subordinate to the nobler purposes of our entire nature, — " is fume, " Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; " And renders us, in things that most concern, ' Then, as to intellectual pursuits, instead of conceding to the opposers of evangelical religion,...

...not to know at large of things remote, From use ohscure and suhtle, hut to knoir That which hefore us lies in 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, unprepar'd,...

...appropriate use, and each subordinate to the nobler purposes of our entire nature, — " — — is fume, " Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; " And renders us, in things that most concern, " Unpractis'd, unprefHr'd, and still te leek." — MiLTON. Then, as to intellectual pursuits, instead...

...new, He only from their cause their natures knew. Denham. Not to Anoir of things remote, but knaia That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. Milton. i hese are resolved into a confessed ignorance, and I shall not pursue them to their old asylum...

...is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use,...obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lie« in daily life, Ii the prime wisdom. BOOK II. EMMANUEL COLL. eine anno. X. What was tbe occasion...

...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 1DO That, 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 : 195 And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised,...