 | Philippe Ariès, Michelle Perrot, Georges Duby - 1987 - 754 pages
...essence of salvation. As that favorite poet of the Evangelicals, the Puritan John Milton wrote: For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace - 1991 - 256 pages
...about More's relationship to the poem. These begin with her choice of an epigraph from Book VIII. For not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Mary Johnson Lincoln - 1996 - 576 pages
...COOKING SCHOOL WHOSE ENTHUSlASM lN THElR WORK HAS MADE THE LABOR OP TEACHlNG A DELlGHT. " Not to knuw at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, 1s the prime wisdom." MlLTON. " To know what vou do know, and not to know what you do not know, is... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 pages
...to rove Unchecked, and of her roving is no end; Till warned, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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. . . . (VIII, 1B6-95)... | |
 | James W. Muller - 1999 - 180 pages
...to rove Uncheckt, 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...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; what is more, is Mime, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things... | |
 | 粟野修司 - 1999 - 314 pages
...about Eve's fall through Raphael's admonition: Till warned, or by experience taught, she learn, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Desiree Hellegers - 2000 - 250 pages
...metaphor for speculative science, is a distraction from far more important and immediate concerns: That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...said "may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered" (para. 228):" . . . not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom . . . (Bk. vm, 191-94) This association of "daily life" - so evidently continuous... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...rove Uncheckt, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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, 195 And renders us... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...rove Unchecked, and of her roving is no end; Till warned, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
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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... 
