 | Charles Taylor - Philosophy - 1992 - 628 pages
...ideas of modern culture, an idea which was given a terse formulation by the greatest of Puritan poets: To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.45 But there were obviously other strands of Protestantism, such as the different Continental... | |
 | Philippe Ariès, Michelle Perrot, Georges Duby - History - 1987 - 754 pages
...Puritan John Milton wrote: For 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.3 To know one's self and the state of one's soul was the "prime wisdom." The second major duty... | |
 | Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 250 pages
...an epigraph from Book VIII. For 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, (lines 191-194) Speaking here of the mind or fancy, Adam locates the local and domestic focus... | |
 | Joshua Brown - History - 1991 - 486 pages
...revisionist work, discussed below, cut its teeth on reviews of the Oxford History of South Africa. (iv) . . . but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime Wisdom (Milton, Paradise Lost) Since the mid-1960s, a "historical whirlwind" has gusted through the... | |
 | Celia Florén - 1992 - 624 pages
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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... 
