 O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls...  Mores Catholici: Books V-VI - Page 414by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1889Full view - About this book
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...the nature of things That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and, like Folly, shows; Authority and Reason on her wait.' — 18 And all this is... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded;...with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and to consummate... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 pages
...well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount' nanced, and like Folly shows: Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 pages
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 | Eleanor Cook - 1998 - 352 pages
...hierarchy must be kept (549-56): what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 pages
...well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount 'nanc't, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Julia M. Walker - 1998 - 252 pages
...case begins to draw to her in an ever-increasing flow all of the power of Adam's created world, until All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - 1999 - 540 pages
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 | David Williams - 1999 - 534 pages
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 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 pages
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