 | F. Andre Kracht - 2002 - 286 pages
...sich an Tage's Hand, sank zurück auf die Tischplatte. Maschinengeschrieben der Text, den es aufwies: To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom; what is more is fume. An die zwanzigmal stand es aufgereiht, Zeile um Zeile. Nur am Fusse des... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
..."Socrates the first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew." — "To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom." — Milton "Though a soul be wise, it is no shame for him to live and learn." — "How terrible... | |
 | Irene Collins - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...SEARCH OF A WIFE. COMrKEUZNDINC OBSERVATIONS DOMESTIC HABITS AND MANNERS, RELIGION AND MORALS. For not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, Hut to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdom. Mi iron. IN TWO VOLUMES.... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...experience taught, she learn, 190 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, what is more, is fume,0 Or emptiness, or fond impertinence,0 And renders us in things that... | |
 | Thomas Augst - History - 2003 - 334 pages
...and literary outlook of its adherents, an orientation which was described by Milton in Paradise Lost: "To know / that which before us lies in daily life / is the prime wisdom (VIII 192-94)." On the popular culture ot Puritan religious practice, sec David D. Hall, Worlds... | |
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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... 
