 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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 lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; And renders us, in things that... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...experience Inught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; press'd watch return'da silver sound. Belinda still her downy pil wisdom : what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in tilings that... | |
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 pages
...domestic economy being, in all its ramifications, of great importance in this worky-day world of ours. " To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." That such wisdom was much more common among English women of the olden time than at present,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...mentally illuminated Milton written : — " Not to know at large of things remote From use and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." It should be ever borne in mind, that success in life is not regarded by the wise man as an... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...more distant counties have caused it to be unfairly neglected. Tourists seldom keep in mind that — " To know that which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" but value scenery as some folks value old china, for its being unattainable near home. Scenes... | |
 | Medicine - 1844 - 602 pages
...have been guided quite as much, in the composition of hig discourse, by the saw of a British sage : " 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... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...criminal, but also very miserable. Besides the common duties of our station — • • • • " and to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom" — in the discharge of which we should be exemplary and diligent; every one should have some... | |
| |
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... 
